According to Taiwan's China Times on the 10th, senior media person Chen Wenqian quoted a report from the New York Times in Wenqi's World Weekly as saying that as of October 8, the average daily number of COVID-19 infections in various regions around the world in the past week, wi

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[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Taiwan will open its borders on October 13, but the epidemic prevention situation is still very serious.

According to Taiwan's China Times on the 10th, senior media person Chen Wenqian cited the US " New York Times " report in " Wenqian's World Weekly " that as of October 8, the average daily number of COVID-19 infections in various regions around the world in the past week, with 44,857 people in Taiwan. 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?"

htmlOn 10, the new coronavirus epidemic on the island finally declined after rising for 14 consecutive days compared with the same period in the previous week, but the number of new cases still exceeded 30,000 on the same day (32,068 local cases and 49 imported cases), and 57 new deaths were reported among the confirmed cases. Previously, on October 7, Taiwan added 50,710 new local confirmed cases, the second highest since the epidemic.

Professor of the School of Public Health of Taiwan University Zhan Changquan html posted a message to Tsai Ing-wen on the 410th saying that according to data from the Taiwan Epidemic Prevention Command Center, Taiwan had a total of 6.836 million local confirmed cases and 11,000 local deaths from 2020 to October 9, 2022, and the total number of confirmed cases was the 19th highest in the world. He believes that the new coronavirus is likely to jump to the fifth leading cause of death for the island in 2022, surpassing the number of deaths of diabetes , hypertensive diseases, accident injuries, chronic lower respiratory tract diseases, nephritis and nephritis and kidney lesions, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis , and the number of deaths caused may exceed the number of deaths of each of the top ten cancers on the island. In addition, the "long-term COVID-19" may be one of the most important risk factors for pathogenicity 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 new crown ". The number of potential "long-term cyclical" 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 said that whether Tsai Ing-wen can adjust her epidemic prevention strategies and properly control the epidemic will be a very important part of her eight years of rule. "Early lax epidemic prevention is high," a comment published by the China Times on the 9th stated that the BA.5 epidemic is reaching its peak, and the ease of the fastest will be until the end of October, and it may be the end of November when the number of cases dropped below 20,000. 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. (Chen Lifei)