Source: Global Times
Following the Announcement by the United States that two doses of the vaccine must be fully administered, Japan also announced new measures to relax the binding, but the list of preliminarily certified vaccines does not contain Taiwan's self-produced high-end vaccines.
People on the island are vaccinated at vaccination stations (Image source: "Zhongshi News Network")
According to Taiwan's "China Times" reported on the 29th, the Japanese government announced new measures to relax entry, since October 1, where the passengers who have received a complete vaccine, the home quarantine can be shortened from 14 days to 10 days, but only for passengers who have been vaccinated with German BNT, the United States Modena and the United Kingdom AstraZeneca vaccine, Taiwan's home-produced high-end vaccine has not been included. Kuomintang Taipei City Councilor You Shuhui speculated on four reactions of Chen Shizhong, "Minister of Health and Welfare," when he heard the Japanese news: First, he confused the public and said that "Japan is regulating other countries, not taiwan"; second, escaping from reality, claiming that the authorities are still paying close attention to and communicating; third, the rogues abdicating their responsibilities and arguing that the United States and Japan are not the only ones in the world; and the fourth is to talk about the wind and cool, saying that they are only isolated for a few more days, or they can still go. Taiwan's epidemic prevention command center responded that it would ask the "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" to continue to work hard to obtain vaccine certification from the Japanese side and recognize high-end.
Previously, the US government announced that overseas travelers entering the country from November must show a complete vaccination certificate, which caused the island people who received high-end vaccines to worry about not being able to enter the United States. Taiwan's "chief executive, Su Zhenchang," said that the relevant US regulations are for areas that already have restrictions, not against Taiwan; Chen Shizhong also said that Taiwan is not on the ban list, so it is not affected. However, Su Chen's claims were immediately confronted by Deng Aide, a spokesman for the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), who made it clear that all foreign adult travelers who want to take a flight to the United States must provide proof of a complete two-dose vaccination. The vaccine brands recognized in the United States refer to vaccines approved by the United States, urgently authorized by the World Health Organization and some clinical trials in the United States, including Pfizer, Modena, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Kexing.
The new regulations of "American Dad" have greatly affected the "cheering" of high-end vaccines on the island. On September 22, only 228 people took the first high-end shot, and only 458 people got the second shot, which can only be described by the word "crash". As a result, "vaccine orphans" have emerged in Taiwan. According to the "United Daily" reported on the 28th, breakdancing adept Zhang Yahan will represent Taipei to Poland in November to participate in the world breakdancing finals, the 22-year-old she can not qualify for any vaccine, the only thing that can be played is the high-end, but Poland does not recognize the high-end, she can not enter. The DPP authorities did not assist in the solution, Zhang Yahan had to find help from the "legislators", and at the appeal of the other party, she made an appointment for the first dose of international vaccine in mid-September, but whether she could get a complete second dose before the November competition is still unknown. According to the report, Zhang Yahan became a "vaccine orphan", whose responsibility is it? Under the consideration of giving priority to the elderly and middle school students, the young people caught in the middle are just missed. Fortunately, there are not many people who can be deceived by the Tsai Ing-wen authorities' "Great Internal Propaganda", otherwise it would be miserable, but the players who represent Taipei are still like this, and the situation of the general public is even more imaginable. Taipei City Councilor Luo Zhiqiang criticized the self-employed vaccine policy and almost killed a good sports player, "How did Tsai Ing-wen, who cheered for the athletes every day at the Tokyo Olympics, disappear?" ”
Even so, the DPP authorities continue to brag about themselves. When Su Zhenchang went to the "Legislative Yuan" a few days ago to report on the project, he boasted that Taiwan "held the epidemic and made the world marvel." However, the latest epidemic prevention resilience ranking released by Bloomberg in the United States on the 28th shows that Taiwan has slipped another place, ranking 42nd, of which it has scored 56.5 points in the "anti-epidemic recovery performance", 30% vaccination coverage, 40 severity of lockdown measures, negative 84.9% flight capacity, and 154 open travel routes. Many netizens on the island sneered, "Just kidding, how can the world keep up with Taiwan?" Someone else said, "Where is the vaccine this year?" I have been bragging about tens of millions of doses next year and tens of millions of doses the following year."
In view of the fact that the United States and Japan do not recognize high-end vaccines, Wang Renxian, chairman of the Taiwan Epidemic Prevention Society, bluntly said that this is all caused by the wrong decisions of the authorities. He suggested that people who have played high-end vaccines get other internationally certified vaccines as soon as possible. Huang Zizhe, vice chairman of the Kuomintang Cultural And Communication Association, wrote that even if the people on the island enter the United States, they have not received vaccines approved by the United States or certified by the WHO, but have been given high-end vaccines, either to be quarantined for 7 days, or there are many places that cannot be entered at all. "Vaccines must be risky, but playing high-end may have more risks of not being certified," he said. According to the United News Network, the response of Su Zhenchang and Chen Shizhong to the new US regulations at the first time shows that the operation of US-Taiwan relations, which the Tsai authorities attach the most importance to, has not been in place, not only has not grasped the intelligence in advance, let alone responded urgently afterwards. Now that Japan has announced new entry regulations, the time is more urgent, and it is obvious that the Tsai authorities, which have always been pro-Japanese, also have no intelligence, "on the surface, high-end people entering Japan cannot enjoy the treatment of reducing the number of days of isolation, but in fact, it is another major blow to the high-end international certification road."