【Global Network Report】Comprehensive "Central News Agency" and "Zhongshi News Network" and other Taiwan media information, because taiwan's recent surge in confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia threatens to drag down the island's medical system, Chen Shizhong, commander of the epidemic command center in Taiwan, announced today (7th) that the standard for lifting the isolation of confirmed cases will be relaxed, that is, from the 8th, the person with mild illness home isolation will be 7 days from the onset day or the testing day, and the isolation can be lifted without testing. This practice quickly aroused doubts, and some netizens on the island said bluntly, "This is really a joke on people's lives."
Taiwan's "Central News Agency" said that Chen Shizhong announced at the epidemic press conference on the afternoon of the 7th, "Considering that the characteristics of the Aomi Kerong variant (of) are mostly mild and asymptomatic, the virus is also very fast, and after 7 days of infection, it is almost no longer contagious, in order to avoid occupying medical resources, the standard for the release of confirmed cases (lifting isolation) will be relaxed."
Chen Shizhong said that in the future, if you are a home care (isolation) object, as long as it is 7 days away from the onset date or the test date, you can directly lift the isolation without testing and carry out 7 days of "independent health management".
Chen Shizhong also said that confirmed cases admitted to hospitals, "enhanced centralized quarantine centers" and "enhanced epidemic prevention hotels", if they are mild, asymptomatic or have symptoms alleviated, can be directly released from isolation as long as they meet one of the following two conditions: first of all, 2 quick screenings (rapid detection of viruses) are negative or 5 days from the onset of illness, the testing day is 5 days and 1 fast screening is negative; secondly, 7 days from the onset date or the testing day, the isolation can be directly lifted.
According to the Central News Agency, as for the hospitalized patients with moderate and severe diseases, Chen Shizhong said that in the future, as long as the symptoms are alleviated and the nucleic acid test result is 1 negative or the Ct value is greater than or equal to 30, they can be transferred out of the isolation or special ward.
Chen Shi mentioned that the above "new system of disengagement" will be implemented from May 8, and all confirmed patients whose test positive date is May 8 will be applicable, but they will not be retroactively applicable to those who tested positive before May 8, he said, "I hope to avoid spending nucleic acid test energy and concentrate more resources on moderately ill patients."
Chen Shizhong also called on counties and cities to set up inspection stations to avoid the influx of patients to the hospital emergency department, and from next week, there will be clinics in Taiwan that will join the ranks of nucleic acid testing.
In response to Chen Shizhong's announcement today that the criteria for lifting the isolation of confirmed cases will be relaxed from May 8, many netizens on the island have expressed doubts, and some netizens have sarcastically said, "You set the rules of the game with the virus, and it is best for him (referring to the virus) to dump you."
Some netizens also directly rebuked, "Is it a mess?" "It's really a joke about people's lives."
There are also suspected confirmed cases of netizens on the island said, "Laughing to death, I have been diagnosed for eight days, fast screening or 'two lines' (positive), not afraid of me to pass on family and friends." You are not afraid, I am afraid myself... It refers to the gray official (value Chen Shizhong) is too kind."
Some netizens said bluntly that the relaxation of isolation standards is "because there is no (enough) fast screening (agent) available (on the island)."
Another netizen questioned, "People are dying every day, is it because the (people) who die of the epidemic are unlucky?" ”
More netizens said, "Now is the medical collapse, and then the crematorium will soon collapse."
The Taiwan Epidemic Command Center announced today that Taiwan today added 46,536 new confirmed cases of new crown, including 46,377 indigenous cases and 159 imported cases. In addition, 11 new deaths were added to the confirmed cases. Taiwan's "United News Network" said that the new local cases on the island in a single day broke a new high of 40,000 for the first time.