According to Global Network , citing Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao, on October 30, local time, the island's epidemic prevention department held a press conference. Spokesperson Zhuang Renxiang told reporters that the island's expert team will discuss in the near future whether the quarantine period of confirmed cases will be shortened from 7 days to 5 days.
According to Zhuang Renxiang, the vaccination group member of the infectious disease prevention and control consultation meeting of the island's health department will discuss the direction of shortening the quarantine period of confirmed patients from 7 days to 5 days; as for whether the election can go out briefly in special circumstances and whether the mask ban can be relaxed, he said that it is up to be provided and cannot be discussed yet.
On October 13, Tsai Ing-wen's authorities announced that Taiwan's borders will be opened. Starting from this day, Taiwan will implement 0+7 free home quarantine for entry. Entryers must undergo 7 days of independent epidemic prevention. During the independent epidemic prevention period, the premises will be 1 person and 1 room, and 4 doses of quick screen reagents will be sent for testing.
According to the original epidemic prevention regulations in Taiwan, people with confirmed cases of new crown should be automatically isolated at home for at least 7 days. Recently, Su Zhenchang, the head of the island administrative department, also quarantined himself at home for 7 days after the diagnosis. But this time, Taiwan is preparing to change the 7-day quarantine period to 5 days. Has the epidemic situation in Taiwan improved?
According to reports from media on the island, the reason why the island's epidemic prevention department is preparing to shorten the quarantine period for confirmed cases is mainly because the DPP authorities believe that the epidemic situation on the island has cooled down. According to Zhuang Renxiang, on October 30, Taiwan added 31,500 new local confirmed cases, 47 imported cases, and 76 new deaths. The number of confirmed cases on October 30 decreased by 986 compared with October 29, a decrease of about 3%, and compared with October 23 a week ago, it decreased by 3,822, a decrease of 10.8%.
This data gave the island's epidemic prevention department a lot of "confidence". As the number of confirmed cases has been greatly reduced, the DPP authorities began to discuss shortening the quarantine period for quarantine people to create a very good image of the epidemic situation on the island for the outside world. However, some island media reminded that although the epidemic in Taiwan has cooled down, the number of deaths has remained high, with 76 new deaths still on October 30. This is interesting. On the one hand, the number of new infections on the island is declining, but on the other hand, the number of new crown deaths remains high.
In this regard, Zhuang Renxiang said that the mortality rate is a backward indicator, which mainly reflects the peak of confirmed cases in the previous two weeks. In other words, the number of confirmed deaths in the new crown every day does not represent the quality of the epidemic situation on the island. This is interesting. Can't the daily number of new coronavirus deaths be seen by the DPP authorities? Is the epidemic on the island still very serious? This is really a careless person.
In addition, Zhuang Renxiang also said that due to the new relaxation policy on November 7, experts will also consider whether the relevant doubts have been lifted, and the mask ban will not be discussed after November. In other words, if the number of confirmed cases of new crown on the island continues to drop, the mask ban is likely to be lifted soon.
Finally, Zhuang Renxiang also said that on October 29, a total of 2,880 people received the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines in the vaccination part of the 6-month-to-4-year-old children, and a total of 1,176 people received the first dose and the second dose of 1,704. Currently, the coverage rate of the first dose of vaccination for the population of this group is 43.3%, and the second dose is 15.9%. As for the Moderna's next-generation vaccination part, a total of 26,700 people were vaccinated, with a total of 36,010 people being vaccinated on the 29th. The coverage rate of the vaccinated population was 93.9% and the second dose was 88.3%, the first dose was 73.9%, and the second dose was 15.4%. The vaccination rate of over 65 years old is 42%.
It is worth noting that it is not known whether the Moderna next-generation vaccine is the original "high-end group" or the latest vaccination for people on the island who have not been vaccinated before. But it is worth noting that before the "high-end" vaccines fell into controversy, the most announced by the epidemic prevention department on the island was the vaccination rate of "high-end" vaccines. This data may indicate that since the island announced the lifting of the lockdown on October 13 and the rumor that the "high-end" vaccine is not recognized by Japan, the willingness of the people on the island to receive "high-end" vaccines is getting lower and lower.
