In Taiwan Taoyuan Hospital, cluster infections continue to expand, and Su Zhenchang is still thinking about the so-called "political achievements"
[Global Times reporter Zhang Ruo] Taiwan’s "Ministry of Health and Welfare" Taoyuan Hospital clustered infections further expanded. 4 local confirmed cases were added on the 19th. This year's Taiwan Lantern Festival was cancelled.
When loopholes appeared in Taiwan's epidemic prevention and control, many words and deeds of Chen Shizhong, the commander of Taiwan's "Central Epidemic Command Center," triggered criticism.
According to a report by Taiwan’s United News Network on the 19th, the cluster infection in Taoyuan Hospital has infected 9 people in 8 days, including 2 doctors, 4 nurses, 2 medical nurses living with family members and 1 foreign nurse.
Chen Shizhong claimed that the current hospital clusters are sporadic community infections caused by overseas imports. Although they are more severe, they have not yet reached the high-risk level of "community infections of unknown origin".
Taiwan's "Executive President" Su Zhenchang is still thinking about the so-called "political achievements", saying that the people must tighten their nerves and "continue to maintain such good results that are admired by the world."
In response to the epidemic, Hsinchu Mayor Lin Zhijian and "Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan" Li Mengyan and others jointly announced on the 19th that the "2021 Taiwan Lantern Festival" originally scheduled to be held in Hsinchu City from February 26 to March 7 was closed.
Lin Zhi insisted that the lantern festival gathers millions of people and cross-regional crowds, which can easily form a breach in epidemic prevention.
Many counties and cities subsequently announced the suspension of related activities.
Yilan County Magistrate Lin Zimiao announced on the evening of the 19th that the "Happy Yilan Year" event was closed.
This is the first time the event has been closed in 28 years.
Taichung Mayor Lu Xiuyan held an emergency internal meeting to announce the cancellation of the 2021 Mid-Taiwan Lantern Festival.
Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe said that relevant details will be announced on the 20th.
At the same time, Chen Shizhong's many methods of epidemic prevention have caused criticism on the island.
On the 16th, an island reporter discovered that he was coughing frequently while wearing a mask at all times. Chen Shizhong admitted that he had a cold and had a fever on the 15th.
Although he said that the test was negative, he still held a press conference with such a physical condition, which undoubtedly played a bad example for an epidemic prevention commander.
On the 18th, in response to a media question, “Taiwan’s self-funded screening fee is NT$5,000 to NT$7,000, while the cheapest in the mainland is NT$345.” Chen Shizhong responded, “Because Taiwan is more accurate and the mainland is a whole batch. The accuracy of detection is also different.” Zhongshi Electronic News criticized that there is no direct relationship between testing costs and results. Moreover, there are not only "whole batch inspections" in mainland China, but also "single-person testing", which will be adjusted according to different needs at the moment, "based on'mainland batch inspection'. To judge the inaccuracy of mainland nucleic acid testing is just prejudice and ignorance caused by ideology." The article said that Chen Shizhong did not think about how to make nucleic acid testing more convenient and affordable. He would only throw away the pot for the first time and use a method to discredit the mainland to rationalize Taiwan’s expensive testing costs. It is unconvincing at all. To belittle the mainland, Chen Shizhong cannot hide his incompetence."