Minister of health and Welfare Chen Shizhong exposed for the first Time the inside story of the Wuhan pneumonia vaccine procurement with domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies at an afternoon press conference, and mentioned that the LIBERTY virus has four scare factors. (Photo source: Central News Agency)
President Tsai Ing-wen said this morning after convening a high-level meeting on national security that she has instructed to over-deploy for the new wave of NipahVirus (NiV) risk. The first time that the situation and the process of procuring Wuhan pneumonia vaccine with domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies were exposed at the afternoon press conference, the commander of the Central Epidemic Command Center, Chen Shih-chung, also mentioned that the host of the Nipah virus is a bat, and said that there are four scare factors such as human-to-human transmission, high lethality, no Medicine and no vaccine, but the study concluded that the risk of community transmission is low.
Domestic and foreign vaccine procurement insider first exposure Chen Shizhong: recently ready to sign another pharmaceutical company
According to the Central News Agency and the Free Times, Chen Shizhong said at a press conference on the afternoon of the 9th that there had been one new local case and four cases of overseas immigration, and Chen Shizhong also explained the achievements of epidemic prevention over the year. As for the procurement of vaccines, the status and process of vaccine procurement by domestic and foreign pharmaceutical companies was revealed for the first time.
Chen said that the target of 30 million doses of vaccines to be procured is 20 million doses for foreign pharmaceutical companies and 10 million doses for domestic pharmaceutical companies. In addition to the vaccine that has been confirmed to be allocated from COVAX, there is also the vaccine purchased with AZ Pharmaceuticals, and recently it is about to sign a contract with another international pharmaceutical company.
As late last year, the Taiwanese pharmaceutical company Toyo originally claimed to have secured the BNT vaccine agency, but eventually it still broke the game. In this regard, Chen Shizhong explained today that the command center is directly in contact with the original manufacturer for vaccine procurement, and the agent needs to present the original authorization letter, as for the broken situation of Toyo, it is because the authorization time is still unable to negotiate, and finally cancelled.
Chen Shizhong said that he could not talk more about the contents of the contract because he had signed a confidentiality agreement, but he never planned to purchase 10 million doses of BNT vaccine because he was worried that the cold refining technology was not mature and the vaccine would be wasted if it broke down, and originally he only planned to purchase 2 million doses, but now he still maintains a contact channel with BNT vaccine.
It was mentioned that another manufacturer, Jacobson, did not have the original authorization documents, which led to the cessation of negotiations at the end of October 2020. In response to the rumor that Toyo broke the deal because of Jacobson, Chen clarified, “No, that’s not true,” and said that Jacobson was announced to have broken the deal earlier than Toyo in November.
The spokesman of the Epidemic Command Center, Chuang Ren-xiang, said that the Vaccination Group of the Advisory Committee on Infectious Disease Control had listed the priority of vaccination on July 6, 2020, with a total of 9 categories and a total of about 65% of the population (about 13 million people); in order to plan the vaccination program, after communicating with the Health Bureau and the Vaccination Group, the order of vaccination and the number of people were planned into 3 phases. In order to plan the vaccination program, after communicating with the Health Bureau and the Vaccination Group, the vaccination order and number of people were planned into 3 stages.
Chuang explained that in the first phase, if the number of vaccines does not exceed 2 million doses, it is expected that 999,300 people will be vaccinated, covering the first five priority groups such as medical personnel and epidemic prevention personnel; if the number of vaccines reaches 2 million to 10 million doses, the second phase will be arranged for the elderly aged 65 and above; in the third phase, if the number of vaccines exceeds 10 million doses, the target group will include those aged 19 to 64. In the third phase, if the vaccine exceeds 10 million doses, it will be administered to high-risk groups, people with rare diseases and major injuries, and adults aged 50 to 64.
The LIBERTY virus has 4 scare factors Chen Shizhong: but the risk of community transmission is low
This morning, Tsai Ing-wen held a high-level meeting on national security, namely in the presidential palace to talk to the nation. In the talk, Tsai Ing-wen, for the new wave of the Li Bai virus risk, stressed that the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Executive Yuan Agricultural Committee, be sure to grasp the possible development of the emerging epidemic, ahead of the deployment.
In response to the risk of a new wave of Lipavirus, Chen Shizhong said at a press conference, although the Lipavirus has 4 scare factors, there are also experts worried about the potential risk of a pandemic, but has met with the Agricultural Commission and other relevant units, and that the risk of causing a pandemic is low, but because of the emerging diseases, society should be more alert, with various ways to respond.
Chen Shizhong said that the natural hosts of the virus bat will not fly so far, it is difficult to fly from India, Bangladesh to Taiwan, followed by the main conquering hosts of the virus is the pig, Taiwan is very complete in the import and control of pork, pig farm environment and pig breeding staff for cross-infection control ability, the virus is not easy to enter Taiwan or become human-to-human transmission.
Chen said, fever is one of the symptoms of the virus, after fever screening station and ask the travel history, occupational history can be distinguished, the virus is mainly through body fluids or excrement and other contact transmission, if good environmental health, the possibility of transmission can be greatly reduced, although the impact of the current study, but the risk of community transmission is low, and nearly 200 kinds of zoonotic diseases, so people’s health and hygiene Education is the most basic Prevention.
According to the official website of the Department of Health and Welfare’s Disease Control Agency, “the natural host of the Lepidoptera virus is bats, found in the genus Foxbat and other bat species, and can cause infection in a variety of animals (intermediate hosts), such as pigs, horses, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals, and infect humans.”
In the route of infection, the official website of the Department of Disease Control introduces: firstly, the Lepidoptera virus can be transmitted to humans by bats and pigs, and humans are mostly infected by direct contact with sick pigs or through respiratory droplets, contact with the oral and nasal secretions of sick animals or their tissues; secondly, eating fruit or dates or tree sap contaminated by the urine and saliva of infected fruit bats can lead to infection; thirdly, there is limited human-to-human Third, there is limited human-to-human transmission. From the Bangladesh and India epidemics, it was found that the Lepidoptera virus can be transmitted from person to person through contact with the patient’s secretions and excretions.
In terms of clinical symptoms, the official website of the Department of Disease Control introduces: the initial symptoms of infection with Lepto virus are similar to those of influenza, with some being asymptomatic and others showing mild or severe acute respiratory symptoms. Severe cases can lead to encephalitis and convulsions, and develop into coma within 24 to 48 hours. After recovery, sequelae, such as convulsions or personality changes, may occur.
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