Source: Overseas Network
Taiwan people were vaccinated (Taiwanese media data photo)
Overseas Network, September 26 According to Taiwan's "China Times News Network", as of September, 3.5 million doses of the new crown vaccine purchased by the DPP authorities have expired and scrapped, wasting about 1.2 billion (NTD, the same below), of which Taiwan's self-produced "high-end vaccine" wasted more than 500 million. Public opinion on the island criticized that the DPP authorities' wrong procurement policies have caused huge waste of hard-earned taxpayers' hard-earned money.
unused vaccines must be destroyed when they expire. According to statistics from the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center, as of September 15, 3.5 million of the 53.51 million doses of vaccines of various brands purchased by the DPP authorities have expired and scrapped. Among them, the expiration vaccines that have not yet been out of stock include about 2.29 million doses of AZ (AstraZeneca vaccine) and about 587,000 doses of "high-end" vaccines; and among the expiration vaccines reported by counties and cities, there are about 59,000 doses of AZ, about 475,000 doses of Moderna, about 68,000 doses of BNT, and about 14,000 doses of "high-end". Adding up the two, the AZ vaccine destroyed a total of about 2.35 million doses, followed by Taiwan's own "high-end vaccine".
"high-end vaccine" is facing expired due to poor popularity, a total of 601,000 doses are facing expired and scrapped. Based on an average of 845 yuan per dose, a total of 500 million yuan of tax payments is wasted, which is the most "burning money" among all brands of vaccines. In addition, the cost of destruction is expensed by each county and city. In other words, the waste of money is far more than this number.
Former official of the Taiwan Health and Welfare Department, Qiu Shuti, questioned that in 2021, the DPP authorities will not be able to get other vaccines in order to create favorable conditions for "letting the high-end pass emergency use authorization (EUA)." Now there are surplus of vaccines from all brands, and they should be given to other places where vaccines are needed. However, the expensive "high-end vaccines" are not recognized by the world and cannot be given out even if they want to, which ultimately leads to huge waste of hard-earned money from taxpayers. The DPP authorities' health and welfare department and epidemic command center should make reasonable explanations to the public. Many netizens on the island also left messages and criticized: "This is too wasteful", "Who will be responsible for financial responsibilities?" "We should check if there are other black box office operations."
