According to Taiwanese media reports, opposition parties questioned that Taiwan's self-produced high-end vaccine scrapping rate is higher than that of international investors. "Legislator" Gao Jiayu even criticized the high-end for not receiving international certification, and the question was a stock trading drama. In this regard, "Premier Administrative" Su Zhenchang said that it is better to have more or less vaccines than to find them after the shots. Vaccines are strategic materials, and it is best to make them by themselves.
Su Zhenchang said in an interview today (7th) that the vaccine was based on the needs of epidemic prevention, "it would rather make it more than less than go find it after the shot, it would be too late." "Of course it cannot be used if the vaccine expires." Su Zhenchang also said that the United States just scrapped 90 million doses of vaccine in July. As for the repeated criticism of high-end vaccines, Su Zhenchang said that vaccines are strategic materials and it is best to make them by themselves.
It is also reported that "Minister of Health and Welfare" Xue Ruiyuan confirmed on the 6th that the number of expired high-end vaccines has reached 1.2 million doses. If they expire one after another, the maximum amount of destruction may reach 1.7 million doses. Regarding the issue of vaccine destruction, Xue Ruiyuan said in an interview before the Legislative Yuan meeting today that in the past, 52% of influenza vaccines were also scrapped, "This is nothing."
According to the audit report of the DPP authorities, as of the end of September this year, Taiwan purchased more than 68.41 million doses of vaccines, received more than 24.26 million doses of vaccines, totaling more than 92.67 million doses; of which more than 65.95 million doses have been shipped, and more than 57.87 million doses have been consumed. Among them, 5 million doses were purchased for high-end vaccines, and 4.48 million doses have been consumed, including 150,000 doses donated to Somaliland .
Xue Ruiyuan said that at present, the total number of new crown vaccines of in each brand of has been destroyed, of which 1.2 million are high-end, and the remaining 2.8 million are mainly AZ, and some Moderna and BNT vaccines are also included. If the high-end purchase maintains the original dosage form in the future and does not work well for the mutant strain, we do not plan to continue purchasing.
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