According to Taiwanese media reports, recently, the chief secretary of Taiwan's "Tourism Bureau" instructed his subordinates to pick up his son who returned from the Philippines at the airport, which resulted in the subordinate and his 5-year-old child being diagnosed with COVID-19, which caused an uproar on the island.
Commander of the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center Chen Shizhong
According to Taiwanese media reports, the supervisor of the "Tourism Bureau" instructed an employee of the Taiwan "Tourism Bureau" stationed at the Taoyuan Airport Passenger Service Center to receive his son from the Philippines to return to Taiwan. The two then drank coffee at the airport for half an hour. On the 22nd, the supervisor's son fell ill, but he had no sense of risk. On the 27th, he also had a meeting with "Minister of Transportation" Lin Jialong and a large number of officials and "legislators"; on the 23rd, airport employees also fell ill. On the 30th, Taiwan’s “Central Epidemic Command Center” reported that 8 new confirmed cases were added on the same day, one of which was a local case, the 5-year-old son of the airport employee, whose kindergarten class was suspended for 14 days.
Official opinion on the island questioned that the "Tourism Bureau" officials drove to the airport to pick up their son on the same day. Before his son was diagnosed, they participated in six meetings and official itineraries, and contacted about 100 people, but were not tested because they were asymptomatic and were only listed as home quarantine. Late at night on the 29th, "Minister of Transportation" Lin Jialong was furious and ordered a comprehensive investigation. On the 30th, the Ministry of Transportation, together with the Tourism Bureau, the Immigration Bureau and other units, removed the supervisor and accepted a follow-up investigation.
In response to this, United News Network commented that the airport employees received the son of the supervisor and drank coffee for half an hour together, but the epidemic prevention commander Chen Shizhong actually said that coffee could be drunk at the airport. The problem is that the son of the supervisor did not drink it alone, but drank it with his father's subordinates. Is this a "necessary contact"? Can other people who are quarantined at home compare? The article said that the son of the supervisor returned to Taiwan to receive courtesy and mobilized many people, which resulted in infection and isolation of others. "The major epidemic incident should be handled carefully, rather than after Lin Jialong was furious and dismissed, the incident was handled to an end."
is not only particularly "magnanimous" to its own people, but also the DPP authorities have adopted the completely opposite strategy of returning to Taiwan from the United States with the most confirmed cases, and only need to be quarantined at home instead of centralized quarantine.
In this regard, Taipei Mayor Ke Wen-je expressed doubts in an interview on the 430th that the United States has now become the country with the most confirmed cases in the world. He said: "From the statistical data, New York is more dangerous than Wuhan. Why do people returning to Taiwan from Europe and the United States undergo home quarantine, but those stranded in mainland China and Hubei implement centralized quarantine?" He believes that the DPP authorities should have unified standards for both the mainland and the United States.
In addition, Ko Wen-je also complained that the DPP authorities let too many people enter Taiwan during this period. According to statistics from the Taipei Civil Affairs Bureau on the morning of the 30th, the number of people quarantined at home in Taipei City is currently as high as more than 10,900, which is close to the capacity range of the home quarantine inspection of the Taipei Civil Affairs System.
Taiwan current affairs commentator Lee Kongzhi, a special Taiwan official at Straits TV, said that epidemic prevention is a professional manifestation and should have a set of strict implementation standards. The DPP authorities should make the Taiwanese people on the island feel at ease, and also make the Taiwanese people stranded in other regions feel at ease. But now, the professionalism of the DPP authorities' epidemic prevention team has gradually been overwhelmed by political nature. The most obvious one is that it is not guarding against people entering Taiwan in Europe and the United States. However, mainlanders who return to Taiwan have to return by charter flights, and they still have to be quarantined after returning to Taiwan. This double standard has caused the number of confirmed cases imported from abroad in Taiwan to increase every day, and epidemic prevention gaps and breakthroughs have been formed. If effective control of those who are quarantined at home cannot be carried out, the number of community infections in Taiwan in the future may increase.
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