China News Service, May 19 (Xinhua) According to Taiwanese media reports, the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center announced today (19th) that there were 90,331 new local cases of new coronary pneumonia and 59 new deaths.
The command center said that the overall epidemic is still on the rise and will reach its peak in the next week.
Daily increase of more than 90,000
Netizens satirize:
The DPP has finally become the first in the world
According to statistics from the Epidemic Command Center, as of now, there have been 1,070,561 confirmed cases in Taiwan, of which 1,058,115 are local cases.
Since 2020, there have been a total of 1,235 deaths, of which 1,220 were local and 15 were imported from abroad.
Chen Shizhong, commander of the Taiwan Epidemic Epidemic Command Center, said on the 19th, "The number of cases has risen a lot, but fortunately it has not reached 30% like the previous day (85,310 new local cases were reported on the 18th in a single day, and Chen Shi's middle finger increased by nearly 30% compared with the day before yesterday) so many."
In response to the newly added epidemic data on the island today, as soon as the report came out, Taiwanese netizens couldn't sit still, leaving a message saying: "The DPP has finally made the world in trouble (meaning number one)" "Why don't you step down? Shameless. To this state." "The tower green spot regime is incompetent, shameless and immoral"...
The overall epidemic is still on the rise
In response to the recent surge in the number of newly confirmed cases, Luo Yijun, deputy head of the medical response team of the Taiwan Epidemic Command Center, said that the surge in the number of infected people was mainly due to the increase in the total number of tests. , a total of 110,000 cases, and continued to increase, the positive rate was 66.7%.
Luo Yijun said that the epidemic situation in central and southern China is on the rise, and the overall epidemic situation is still on the rise, and it will reach its peak in the next week.
Taiwanese people are doing PCR testing.
Photo by Wu Jiasheng of Taiwan's "Central News Agency".
According to Taiwan media reports on the 19th, statistics as of the 18th show that the local epidemic in this wave roughly estimates that the mortality rate of severe cases is about 79%, which is a high rate.
Shi Wenyi, the "Director of Disease Control" in front of the stage, said that it should be related to factors such as the limit of medical load and the slow administration of drugs.
Scholars' research also found that from the end of April to mid-May this year, the mortality rate of the elderly over 70 years old on the island was more than double the average of the same period in the previous five years, highlighting that insufficient medical treatment may lead to "excess deaths".
Some people posted on Facebook that their 90-year-old dialysis mother went to the emergency department of Keelung Chang Gung Hospital in the early morning of the 17th because of a positive quick test, but was not admitted to the hospital until 2 a.m. The outside world said that the amount of medical treatment could collapse.
Chen Shizhong "refuted" today and said, "Taiwan has definitely not yet reached the medical collapse, which is a bit alarmist."
In response to the 59 new deaths reported today, Chen Shizhong said, "It is estimated that the fatality rate will continue to rise. This year, it has gradually grown from 0.32 per thousand to 0.33 per thousand. I believe it will continue to rise, and I hope the number will not exceed 1,000 in the future. 1 in 1."
Netizens responded to Chen Shizhong's response: Cold-blooded!
Tsai Ing-wen calls for the establishment of care centers
Netizen: What's the use?
According to Taiwan's "United Daily News", Tsai Ing-wen will be celebrating her 6th anniversary of her inauguration. Taiwan's current affairs network big data analysis website "Internet Thermometer" released a document on the 19th. Statistics show that in the past year, netizens and the public have the most discussion about the authorities. Among the top 10 incidents, the first one is related to epidemic prevention, which is "vaccine storm! Purchase, out of stock, stock price, Guo Dong's purchase check".
The local epidemic situation in Taiwan is on the rise. The leader of the Taiwan authorities, Tsai Ing-wen, posted on social media Facebook on the 19th that he encouraged the public and private sectors to build care centers to ease the pressure on medical care.
However, some netizens questioned that Taiwan now lacks medical supplies and overworked medical care, so what is the use of building a care center?
The post attracted a large number of netizens to leave messages, most of which were negative, saying, "What is the use of the care center? Providing quick screening for free to the public is the key point." , is the only way to alleviate public grievances.”
The Taiwan Pharmacy sells real-name rapid screening reagents.
Data map: Taiwan "China Times News Network".
The People's Party and the Kuomintang have also recently criticized the failure of the Tsai Ing-wen authorities in the past six years. The People's Party's "Legislative Yuan" group proposed six major shortcomings of the Tsai Ing-wen authorities, including calling on the authorities to have clear and followable epidemic prevention policies.
The Kuomintang released the latest satisfaction poll, naming the public the most dissatisfied with the five policy performances of the Tsai Ing-wen government, including epidemic prevention performance.
In addition, in response to the DPP's statement on the 17th that Tsai Ing-wen has been in office for 6 years, from policy to promotion and implementation, steady implementation of various performance and policies.
Zhao Shaokang, chairman of Taiwan's "Zhongguang", criticized that the Tsai Ing-wen authorities not only lost a lot to the Ma Ying-jeou authorities in terms of economic performance, but were also far less active than the Ma Ying-jeou authorities in epidemic prevention and maintenance. To put it bluntly, Tsai Ing-wen lives in the ivory tower, and the DPP lives in the metaverse.