According to Taiwan media reports on November 4, Taiwan's public opinion agency reviewed the fourth additional case of the epidemic prevention and relief budget. In response to the high-end vaccines with poor conditions, Taiwan's "Minister of Health and Welfare" Chen Shizhong said in the public opinion agency that the authorities have purchased 5 million doses of high-end doses and have administered 1.38 million doses. "Currently, about 2,000 doses are used every day." If there is any remaining, it will contact the economy in need. The opening contract of another 5 million doses has been temporarily suspended. However, opposition parties including the Kuomintang and the Ministries 3 and the Ministries have all expressed that the people are afraid to get their own high-end vaccines now, and it is completely unreasonable that the authorities still buy so many!
According to the current high-end calculation of 2,000 doses per day, the high-end may only be sold by the end of this year. Together with the 1.38 million doses that have been administered, a total of about 1.5 million doses are about 1.5 million doses. In other words, if the Taiwanese people's willingness to administer high-end vaccines cannot increase upward, once all 5 million doses are delivered, even if some of them are successfully transferred for "foreign aid purposes", the number of "residual agents" may still be quite large.
DPP authorities purchased 5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the high-end. If the open contract is included, the total amount will reach 10 million doses. Nowadays, as the number of people willing to apply for high-end vaccines continues to decrease sharply, the subsequent additional case of epidemic prevention and relief budget proposed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare will increase the purchase of high-end products, which has attracted attention from the government and the opposition.
Regarding the delivery and administration of high-end vaccines, Chen Shizhong said that the number of contracted contracts is 5 million doses. Currently, 2.23 million doses have been delivered at the high-end market, of which 1.38 million doses have been administered. Currently, about 2,000 doses are used every day. It was originally expected that more than 2.7 million doses would be delivered before the end of the year, but now it will be postponed to the beginning of next year.
People's Party "legislator" Cai Biru said that the current situation is equivalent to the people sending a vote of distrust for Taiwan's self-produced vaccines. Next, the Ministry of Health and Welfare must realize that Taiwan must try to develop self-produced vaccines. After all, this is a "national security industry". No one knows what kind of virus will appear in the future. Therefore, I hope that the Ministry of Health and Welfare can further strengthen the "Regulations on the Development of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry" and enhance the self-produced vaccine research and development capabilities on the island.
KMT "legislator" Lai Shibao also shouted to Chen Shizhong that the authorities would only play high-end cheerleaders in the past, allowing high-end to pass the EUA without having to do a phase three test. Although they now claim to go to Paraguay to do the third phase, they are actually just doing immunization bridges, and the number of people is only more than 1,000, "that's a scam."
Lai Shibao emphasized that the problem with the high-end is that it has not passed the third phase of the test. Since this is the case, the authorities should urge the high-end to complete the third phase so that the high-end can enter the off-island market, rather than being unable to get out like now.
In this regard, Chen Shizhong argued that the high-end has been listed as sponsors by WHO. "There are more than 150 vaccines in the world, and we are the only two vaccines." It can be seen that high-end scientific reports are recognized, and WHO is very confident in the high-end.
But the People's Party "legislator" Gao Hongan emphasized that Chen Shizhong's statement actually only proves that the WHO does not recognize high-end vaccines, so he believes that the third phase should be done. This is the same as the questioning of opposition parties in the past, and they all believe that EUA should not be recognized through immune bridging.