According to Taiwan's United Daily News on February 1, more than 100,000 doses of Pfizer's new crown vaccine will arrive in Taiwan on February 4. At 10:30 am that day, Chen Shizhong, commander of the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center, responded to the matter at a press conference: "Sternly deny this message", "No such thing."
According to the Hong Kong Ming Pao website on January 31, after the new crown epidemic infection group appeared in Taoyuan Hospital in Taiwan, it had been confirmed on five consecutive days. On January 30, 4 new cases suddenly increased, with a total of 19 confirmed cases.
The expansion of cluster infection incident in Taoyuan Hospital has made people on the island pay more attention to the vaccine arrival process.
htmlOn February 1, Taiwan's United Daily News reported that it had obtained exclusive information. The Taiwan Epidemic Command Center obtained more than 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine through diplomatic channels in the United States, and is expected to be transported to Taiwan by Emirates Airlines on February 4. The United Daily News said that medical staff at Taoyuan Hospital, Taiwan, who had outbreaks of infection, will give priority to getting the new crown vaccine.Report Screenshot
At 10:30 am that day, the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center held a press conference. The head of the command center Chen Shizhong solemnly denied the media's report that "the command center has obtained 100,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines through diplomatic channels in the United States, and is expected to be air transported to Taiwan on February 4th."
Chen Shizhong said that as of now, the command center has not received any notice of the exact flight arriving in Taiwan by the manufacturer of vaccine purchase. Once the number of vaccines available and the import time are determined, the implementation plan for vaccinating the new crown vaccine will be announced based on the priority order of implementation targets formulated by the vaccination team of the Taiwan Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Consultation Association and the epidemic situation.
In response to media calls, the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center responded as follows: 1. There was no news that "the Pfizer new crown vaccine will come to Taiwan on February 4"; 2. If there is, come; 3. If there is, it will be announced to the public as soon as possible.
According to previous reports by Observer.com, the Taiwanese authorities have not made any progress in purchasing new crown vaccines from the outside. In order to solve the dilemma of vaccine procurement on the island, the Taiwan authorities have also proposed a plan to "chip for vaccines".
, who had always been stubborn and claimed that "Taiwan does not use mainland vaccines", could not help but complain that the vaccine cannot be bought because of excessive purchases by major countries, and also criticized the United Nations and the WHO (World Health Organization) for being ineffective and should play their role.
Former "legislator" of the Kuomintang Su Qingquan also pointed out in an interview with China Review News Agency on the 829th that Taiwan's new coronavirus testing costs, vaccine development, and vaccination process are all backward. Taiwan can clearly choose to cooperate with the mainland, and will actually help Taiwan, which will also be an opportunity for cross-strait cooperation.
Su Qingquan Photo source: China Review Newsletter
, and Chen Shizhong said that if you want to import mainland vaccines, you must consider the relevant legal revisions, but if you want to introduce them, "this condition is that there is no candidate vaccine." "
In fact, as early as January 27, when a reporter asked whether it was possible to donate vaccines to Taiwan through the Red Cross organization, Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, made it clear that the head of the epidemic prevention department said many times that "it won't use mainland vaccines", so there are indeed obstacles in this issue, mainly political obstacles. Some people in Taiwan reject mainland vaccines and always have to weave various excuses and lies to harm the lives and health of Taiwanese people for their own political self-interest.
According to Taiwan Data released by the Bay Epidemic Command Center today shows that Taiwan has a total of 912 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 8 deaths. In the cluster infection incident in Taoyuan Hospital in Taiwan, a total of 19 people were confirmed and 4,337 were isolated.
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