Source: Huaxia Jingwei.com
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[Huaxia Jingwei.com Comprehensive Report] Taiwan reported 41,438 new confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia and 36 deaths on the 11th. However, the Taiwan authorities' "Epidemic Command Center" said that the data on that day fell by 16.5% compared with the same period last week, which may be related to the holiday effect and needs to be cautious. The DPP authorities plan to open entry on October 13, but due to the astonishing growth rate of confirmed cases and the new crown pneumonia this year will become the fifth leading cause of death on the island, experts believe that the epidemic prevention situation is still very serious, and the DPP authorities' epidemic prevention measures cannot achieve the so-called "coexistence with the virus" at all!
The growth rate of confirmed cases in Taiwan is astonishing
According to Taiwan media reports, senior media person on the island Chen Wenqian citing the US " New York Times " report in " Wenqian's World Weekly " that as of October 8, the average daily number of new coronavirus pneumonia in various regions around the world in the past week, Taiwan, China ranked third with 44,857; and on October 7, Taiwan added 50,710 new local confirmed cases, the second highest since the Omickron epidemic. Data shows that among the "new epidemics per 100,000 people", Taiwan is the first, with 189 people. The report caused heated discussion on the island, and some netizens mocked: "How can the world keep up with Taiwan?"
China News Service reported that Zhan Changquan, a special professor in the Department of Public Health of National Taiwan University, wrote an article. According to data from Taiwan's "epidemic prevention command center", from 2020 to October 9, 2022, Taiwan had a total of 6.836 million local confirmed cases and 11,000 local deaths, and the total number of confirmed cases was the 19th highest in the world.
new crown is the fifth leading cause of death for people on the island this year
Zhan Changquan estimated that 2022 is the "New Coronavirus Disaster Year". In the past six months, 30% of the population in Taiwan were infected and more than 10,000 people died. The new crown pneumonia is likely to jump to the fifth leading cause of death for people on the island in 2022, surpassing diabetes , hypertensive diseases, accident injuries, chronic lower respiratory tract diseases, nephritis and kidney disease and kidney lesions, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, and the number of deaths caused may exceed the number of deaths for every one of the top ten cancers on the island.
Taiwan epidemic picture source Taiwan media
In addition, he believes that the "long-term COVID-19" may be one of the most important risk factors for disease-causing that affects the health of people on the island in the future. Taking the current increase of about 20,000 to 50,000 new confirmed cases per day in Taiwan, plus the total number of confirmed cases in the past, 19% of people infected with the US CDCh using have an estimate of "long-term COVID-19". The potential number of people in Taiwan may be more than 1.5 million. Relevant treatment and care needs may bring significant financial and human resources to Taiwan's health insurance and public health work.
Zhan Changquan criticized the DPP's epidemic prevention system and epidemic prevention measures for not controlling the epidemic to the "controllable situation of "coexistence with the virus" of "low infection and low death".
Early lax epidemic prevention costs high cost
However, since Taiwan will open entry on October 13, "early lax epidemic prevention costs high cost", Zhan Changquan sighed that whether Tsai Ing-wen can adjust the epidemic prevention strategy and properly control the epidemic as the epidemic develops will be a very important part of her eight years of "ruling".
A comment published by the China Times on the 9th on this topic stated that the BA.5 epidemic on the island is reaching its peak, and the ease of the situation will be at the end of October at the fastest time, and the drop to below 20,000 cases may be at the end of November. The border will be unblocked on the 13th, which is the peak of the BA.5 epidemic. If the people relax early in the future, not only may the number of cases exceeding 60,000 or even 70,000 at peak, but the number of deaths will also exceed 5,000, and Taiwan may pay a heavy price.
Taiwan epidemic pictures source Taiwan media
Former head of the Taiwan authorities' "Health Agency" Qiu Shuti also said that the Taiwan authorities' report on the epidemic has long deviated from the truth, and the truth is failure to reduce disasters and heavy casualties. The DPP authorities' "large internal publicity" cover up the results will lead to more casualties.
Qiu Shuti believes that after the Taiwan authorities proposed "coexistence and disaster reduction", the mortality rate of the new crown has risen rapidly, and dozens of new deaths have been reported every day recently, "This is very terrible."
