The epidemic in Taiwan, which is internationally acclaimed as a model for epidemic prevention, is heating up and many people are busy looking for war criminals. In fact, Taiwan is not a special case, many epidemic stability in Southeast Asian countries have recently taken a sharp turn for the worse, including Singapore, Vietnam and other “anti-epidemic front class students” have also recently encountered the same relentless rebound of the epidemic, the number of confirmed cases in a single day is a record high in 1 year, even since the outbreak of the epidemic. According to analysis, this wave of the epidemic are related to religious celebrations, epidemic prevention fatigue, variant viruses, slow vaccination, and even extramarital sex!
In addition, India’s experience shows that even when the Wulong epidemic appears to have subsided, it can suddenly strike hard and unstoppable in a matter of weeks.
Vietnam, which was originally in the “front line of the fight against the epidemic”, also lost ground at the end of last month, reporting 187 confirmed cases on the 16th, the second time in the past week that the record has been set, with a total of 4,175 people infected so far, 36 of whom died.
The government has now imposed the strictest restrictions on rally activities.
The Economist analyzed that most countries in Southeast Asia are in a similar situation. Hospitals, quarantine, immigration and other areas with the worst defenses have been popping up in clusters, and when these places have a breach, the epidemic will spread quickly. In addition, the virus has mutated over the past year, and the infectivity of the variant is even greater than before. Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand have all seen the footprint of the Indian variant of the virus.
In the past month, Malaysia has seen more than three times the number of confirmed cases, with 4,765 confirmed cases in a single day on May 12. In Thailand, the number of confirmed cases in a single day was only 50 in early April, but exceeded 2,000 a month later. Thailand reported 9,635 new cases on the 17th, a single day high, with 6,853 prisoners confirmed. However, the Thai government relaxed the epidemic prevention measures on the same day, which is considered by the outside world as a big liberation in spite of the seriousness of the epidemic.
Experts from Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand attribute the outbreak to complacency and the travel and participation in large parties during festivals.
The Economist argues that sex outside of marriage has also become a breach in the prevention of the epidemic, noting. By mid-May, the seeds of the epidemic planted by the two sex workers had infected thousands of people and caused more than 100 deaths.
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