According to Global Network , citing reports from media on the island, some professionals suddenly discovered that Taiwan’s high-end vaccines are not recognized in Japan. Recently, in order to stimulate the tourism industry, Taiwan announced that it would relax its entry policy on Taiwan Island , and it is expected that it will officially relax the entry policy on October 13. Coincidentally, Japan has announced a similar policy. The Kishida government has announced that Japan intends to lift the number of people entering Japan on October 11, which is equivalent to relaxing the policy of entering Japan in disguise. Japan has always been an important area for Taiwanese people to visit. Japan is about to relax its entry policy, and opening up free travel is a benefit for Taiwanese who like to travel to Japan. Moreover, Taiwan's relaxation of entry policy has also reduced many restrictions on their return from going out to play.
However, the reality has hit Taiwan hard. The international vaccines it has previously announced that Japan does not include the "high-end" vaccines produced by Taiwan. According to the entry policy issued by Japan, since Taiwan’s own “high-end” vaccines are not recognized, if Taiwanese people want to travel to Japan, they need to do their own nucleic acid and hold a negative nucleic acid certificate to enter the country. It is worth noting that currently, nucleic acid production on the island is not free, but requires 3,500 NT$ at your own expense.
As soon as this report was released, public opinion on the island began to explode again. Last year, the Tsai Ing-wen authorities forced the Taiwanese people to fight "high-end" vaccines on the island, and the unit price of Tsai's "high-end" vaccines on the island was far higher than other vaccines in the world. At present, there are many curses on the Tsai authorities on social media on the island: "Buy Taiwan's value for 3,000 yuan", "Who will pay for the high-end vaccine? Is it generous to the whole people?"
htmlOn September 23, under the huge pressure of public opinion, Wang Bisheng, commander of the island's epidemic prevention command center, could only admit that at present, there is only one way to nucleic acid testing for at its own expense, but "you can observe it again." He said that Japan's border management measures have changed rapidly recently and the pace of opening up is also fast. We can see if vaccine-related restrictions will be lifted further. It seems that the DPP authorities have no choice but to do anything about this.
Against this background, Chen Shizhong has reached the forefront again. Taipei mayor candidates Jiang Wanan and Huang Shanshan all pointed the finger at Chen Shizhong and asked him to apologize. Jiang Wanan said that when Chen Shizhong was the commander of epidemic prevention, he insisted on buying high-end. At that time, the people all reported that fighting high-end may have difficulties in future outbound travel. The purchase price of a high-end vaccine is higher than others, but Chen Shizhong insisted on buying high-end, and facts are better than words.
According to the report of Singapore Lianhe Zaobao, on September 24, Chen Shizhong responded to the matter. In an interview before an event, he said that public policy decisions are based on academic needs. If the outcome theory is to be used, many policy reviews will have problems. Policy decisions should be viewed in a way that is academically consistent and legally compatible. Now all parties are reviewing new practices; they are opening the borders, and now every region is continuing to review what standards to use to get people into the country. Japan has always only six types of vaccine recognition, and the island's foreign affairs departments are currently striving to strive for it.
It seems that Chen Shizhong does not intend to apologize. But it is worth noting that as soon as this report was released, Chen Shizhong's poll was expected to fall again, and it was getting further and further away from winning the throne of mayor of Taipei.
In fact, it is not just Japan. The vaccines it recognizes last year also do not include Taiwan’s “high-end” vaccines. The reason is very simple. Taiwan’s own “high-end” vaccines are too poor, and there are great problems, which have caused a lot of harm to the people on the island. On September 23, when Su Zhenchang was about to go to the legislative department to question, the Kuomintang’s “legislators” directly occupied the rostrum one step ahead and strongly resisted Su Zhenchang. One of the requirements put forward by the Kuomintang to the DPP is to speed up compensation for vaccine victims.
In April this year, Japanese Sankei Shimbun reporter Akio Yada said on social media that he had received three doses of "high-end" vaccines. At the same time, he also boasted that "Taiwan's epidemic prevention is ahead of the world", but on April 26, the nucleic acid test results showed that he himself had new crown . This is really a great irony.
So although Taiwan’s “high-end” vaccine is called “high-end”, it is actually not high-end. Even the United States and Japan feel that it is very unreliable. It is worth noting that in order to gain recognition from other regions, the Taiwan authorities also sent "high-end" vaccines to . WHO wanted to be certified, but there was no result. For this reason, officials of the health department on the island once complained that the WHO's certification was too slow. In fact, it was not that the certification was too slow, but that the "high-end" vaccines were too unreliable.
