China News Service, Beijing, July 15th, title: How arrogant the DPP is to block vaccine procurement

　　China News Agency reporter Rong Haisheng

　　Since May, the impact of the large outbreak of the new crown epidemic in Taiwan has slowed down slightly. The DPP has returned to its original state and has taken steps to block the efforts of the Chinese Kuomintang’s ruling counties and cities and private groups to purchase vaccines.

All governance is based on the principle of "defending power." The arrogant Democratic Progressive Party suffers from a lack of wisdom, and keeps the public exposed to the new crown virus.

　　According to the announcement issued by Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group on July 11, Fosun Industrial, the company's subsidiary, signed a 10 million doses of BNT vaccine sales agreement with TSMC, Hon Hai and Yongling Foundation. This important development helped Taiwanese society get rid of the two The panic of vaccine shortage in the past month and the humanity test of people from all parties rushing to fight the vaccine.

Two days later, the Taiwanese legislature, the Democratic Progressive Party Caucus, immediately held a press conference to deny and attack the application of the four counties and cities including Nantou, including Lanying, to jointly purchase BNT vaccine from Shanghai Fosun Pharma on the grounds that “the vaccine is sufficient at present”.

　　Statistics for 2020 show that the total population of Taiwan is 23.561 million.

According to public information, as of July 13 this year, Taiwan has actually obtained a total of 8.892 million doses of new crown vaccine; in addition, there are still more than 20 million doses of purchased vaccines that cannot be confirmed when the delivery time, and a total of 10 million doses are pre-purchased. The vaccine has not yet started the third phase of clinical trials or has not been unblinded.

Obviously, far more than half of Taiwan's population is still facing the risk of no vaccine in the near future.

　　In addition, the two major types of vaccines currently obtained in Taiwan are the AZ vaccine and the Modena vaccine, of which the AZ vaccine (about 5.37 million doses) is the bulk; however, the rate of serious adverse events caused by this vaccine is relatively high. Have higher doubts about it.

It can be said that the vaccine that the people of Taiwan can feel at ease to administer is far from meeting the demand.

　　Currently in Taiwan, general screening has not yet begun. Unknown sources of infection in the community may become the norm. If qualified vaccines that can truly meet the needs cannot be obtained as soon as possible and the vaccination process is accelerated, it will inevitably delay the precious opportunity to establish an immune barrier and cause serious mistakes. .

　　Looking back at last year, people at home and abroad were surprised by Taiwan’s anti-epidemic performance, but there was a major outbreak in May this year, with more than 750 deaths in total.

The public health sector and public opinion generally believe that the "complacency" and "political anti-epidemic" of the DPP authorities and the inadequate preparation of vaccines and refusal to carry out general screening are the main reasons for Taiwan's current "breakthrough".

　　The latest poll released by the pro-green "Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation" on the 12th of this month showed that within three months, 15% of Taiwanese people who agreed with the Democratic Progressive Party had lost 15%.

Obviously, the outbreak of the epidemic has aroused strong public dissatisfaction with those in power.

　　Previously, due to the extremely high mortality rate of the new crown and the great public outrage caused by the vaccination, the DPP authorities were forced to passively open the Hon Hai and Yongling Foundation, TSMC, and the Taiwan Tzu Chi Foundation to purchase BNT vaccines from Shanghai Fosun Pharma.

However, in recent days, the epidemic has eased slightly, and the authorities have once again erected high walls and used "anti-China defense" ideological tricks to deal with the upcoming 2022 Taiwan county and mayor election and "defend power."

　　However, new coronaviruses such as the delta strain have spread across the island, and the challenges posed by the epidemic are still huge.

As of July 13, Taiwan had received 3.821 million vaccinations, 3.742 million had received the first dose (coverage rate 15.93%), and 79,000 had received the second dose (coverage rate 0.33%), a distance of 70% to 80%. There is undoubtedly a huge gap in the coverage rate of vaccination and the effect of group protection.

　　Failing to learn from the ineffective epidemic prevention, the DPP authorities will inevitably accept even greater lessons.

However, the Taiwanese people, He Gu, with such an arrogant political expression, have to passively bear the impact of such a heavy epidemic.

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