Taiwan's epidemic heats up Taiwan's health department: if 20% of the population is infected, it will "formally coexist with the virus"
Overseas Network, April 21. Chen Shizhong, commander of the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center, said on the 21st that it is "not impossible" that 20% of Taiwan's population will be diagnosed with the new crown in the future, and Taiwan will officially enter the opportunity to "coexist with the virus".
According to Taiwan's Zhongshi News Network, Dongsen News Cloud and other media reports, Taipei Deputy Mayor Huang Shanshan pointed out on the 20th that this local epidemic is estimated to have 20% of Taiwan's population, that is, about 4.6 million people are diagnosed, of which 0.5%. It is moderately severe, about 23,000 people.
Chen Shizhong responded in the legislature on the 21st that "it is not impossible", but hopes to suppress the ratio at around 15% to 16%.
Chen Shizhong also said that once the ratio reaches 15% to 20%, Taiwan will officially enter the opportunity to "coexist with the virus".
Chen Shizhong said that at the beginning of this wave of epidemics, many people were asking whether to "clear" or "coexist with the virus", but most of the places to "coexist with the virus" were forced by the times and faced with the energy of public health. unsupportable situation.
He claimed that the so-called 15% to 20% is "substantial coexistence". There are people who have been infected with the epidemic everywhere. Compared with social management and the situation of contacts, "it will not be so sensitive."
Taiwan's "Ministry of Health and Welfare" also issued an early warning in the administrative agency on the 21st that the number of confirmed cases in Taiwan on April 30 will rise to between 6,180 and 15,583.
The outside world is concerned about whether there will be controls if the epidemic heats up rapidly. Chen Shizhong claimed that the public should try to avoid gatherings, but not too panic.
Some Taiwanese netizens left a message under the relevant news saying they were puzzled, "Is it because we don't want to prevent the epidemic, so let's coexist with the virus?"
The number of confirmed cases of the new crown in Taiwan has surged in the past few days, but Chen Shizhong, the commander of the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center, has previously thrown out the word "self-response", causing public resentment.
On the morning of the 20th, several Taiwanese people went to the Taiwan Health and Welfare Department to protest, handing over plaques that read "Let it go by itself" and chanting "Chen Shizhong to step down on his own."
Tian Fanglun, a public opinion representative in Taipei City's Songxin District, said that Chen Shizhong's statement was to officially enter the "lying flat for epidemic prevention".
(Overseas Network Yang Jia)