(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Taiwan added 79,487 confirmed cases. Public opinion criticized that epidemic prevention measures were not considered

  China News Agency, Taipei, May 22. Taiwan reported 79,487 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on the 22nd, including 79,441 local cases and 46 imported cases, and 53 new deaths.

Local public opinion once again criticized the Taiwan authorities for their lack of consideration for frequently adjusting epidemic prevention measures.

  The "epidemic epidemic command center" of the Taiwan authorities introduced on the same day that the newly added local patients were between the ages of under 5 and over 90 years old, and were distributed in 22 counties and cities in Taiwan. Among them, New Taipei City had the most new cases of 20,698, followed by There were 11,168 cases in Taoyuan City and 9,645 cases in Taipei City; the patients who died were in their 40s and over 90 years old, all of them were severely infected, of which 52 had a history of chronic diseases and 17 had not been vaccinated.

  Regarding the recent frequent adjustment of epidemic prevention measures by the Taiwan authorities, the "United Daily News" published an article on the 22nd that the "command center" said that it must coexist with the virus, but the epidemic prevention policy was poorly thought out, the preparation of epidemic prevention materials was insufficient, and the front line of epidemic prevention was ignored.

The article stated that the authorities’ measures have been changed a little in three days and a big change in five days, so that the people can only prevent the epidemic on their own, and they are often confused by a large amount of useless information. Not on the public side.

  According to the Central News Agency, a total of 3,413 candidates in the local secondary education exam that ended on the 22nd had to take the make-up exam due to factors such as being diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia or positive for quick screening. This year will be the largest number of people taking the make-up exam since the epidemic.

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