[Vacuna Wulong]Exciting! First batch of AZ vaccines manufactured in South Korea will arrive at the command center in Taiwan as soon as possible this month: delivery will begin within a week after arrival |

(New: command center confirmed AZ vaccine obtained)

The good news comes from Taiwan’s imports of the Wuhan pneumonia vaccine. The Central Epidemic Command Center recently purchased 4.76 million doses of vaccine with the COVID-19 “Global Access Mechanism for Vaccines” (COVAX), and the official website of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced yesterday (2/3) COVAX is the first batch of countries to distribute vaccines. Although there is no Taiwan, it is also rumored that Taiwan has not purchased vaccines. However, the command center spokesman Zhuang Renxiang (2/4) confirmed in the afternoon that Taiwan is on the first wave list, and WHO Taiwan is not listed on the official website because the list only lists WHO member countries and Taiwan is not a member country, so it is listed in the (States not members of the United Nations).

Zhuang Renxiang explained that COVAX announced the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine delivery lists on February 3. Among them, 1,332 million doses of AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccines were assigned to non-UN member states, which included purchases from my country and other non-UN members. The number is 5 to 8 for non-UN members.

Furthermore, Zhuang Renxiang pointed out that the time interval for this batch of vaccines to arrive in Taiwan is from February to May, with the slowest in May and the fastest in February. However, it is still necessary to wait for the AZ vaccine to be. Storage and transportation issues have been prepared, and the vaccine can be started approximately one week after arrival.

Zhuang Renxiang also said that as for the BNT vaccine, this wave is not available and may be the next wave. This also proves that there will be a second wave; the AZ / IBS vaccine mentioned in the WHO list refers to India. factory, AZ / SKBio The vaccine comes from a factory in South Korea, and non-member countries get the vaccine from a factory in South Korea.

After approving the emergency use authorization for AZ vaccine, WHO will successively notify countries of the actual quantity of distribution and the delivery schedule. The command center has also actively contacted COVAX for the delivery and customs declaration of this batch of vaccines.

According to COVAX, around 1,332 million doses of AZ vaccine are assigned to non-WHO member countries. If it is distributed between 5 and 8 countries, if the 8 countries are distributed evenly, each country can allocate about 162,900 doses per person. Calculation with 2 doses, the first batch can be administered by about 81,450 people.

In this regard, Zhuang Renxiang explained that the number of vaccines assigned by COVAX to non-WHO member countries depends on the country’s population and the epidemic situation, not necessarily uniformly, but it is certain that a person will administer two doses.

Foreign media reported a few days ago that the COVAX vaccine flight will depart from Dubai, but Zhuang Renxiang said that from what he understands, the AZ vaccine flight should not take off from Dubai; as to whether it will endeavor to use domestic air transportation. He said, Depending on the COVAX delivery details, if it can be shipped by air by nationality, it will be actively searched. Since the storage temperature of AZ vaccine is 2 ℃ ~ 8 ℃, such storage conditions are easy to achieve and will not be a problem.

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COVAX, led by WHO, yesterday announced the first batch of delivery lists. It clearly stated that it will deliver 33.72 million doses of vaccines in the first half of this year. The first batch of vaccines is expected to be distributed before the end of February. Pfizer to be delivered in the first quarter The BNT vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company in cooperation with the German biotechnology company BioNTech will deliver the AZ vaccine jointly developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford before the end of June this year.

According to the WHO official website, COVAX will deliver the vaccine from the end of February to the end of June this year, but when the vaccine can be obtained in Taiwan at the earliest, Zhuang Renxiang only said that once the time is confirmed , will be informed to the public immediately.

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Huang Limin, director of National Taiwan University Children’s Hospital and infectious disease expert, noted that if there is a vaccine assigned by COVAX and it can be obtained before June, it will of course be better, but the main focus is how many vaccines are there. available in the first batch and what brand is it?

Among the nine priority groups, the first category is medical personnel, with a total of 332,000 people in Taiwan. However, Commander Chen Shizhong mentioned yesterday in an interview with Apple News that there is also an order of priority in medical and nursing treatment. Wuhan pneumonia specialist hospital staff struggle, and the second category of central and local epidemic prevention personnel will be mainly national guards who fill out forms, quarantine and prevent epidemics.

Regarding this, Huang Limin said that, of course, it is better to let all medical personnel finish the injection first, but if the epidemic prevention personnel are also going to receive the injection, more vaccines should be obtained, at least the first batch of 1 million. dose is better, and everyone has to take two full doses, and then the risk of nosocomial infection will be reduced and the community will be safer. “The more vaccines I get first, the better the distribution.”

A few days ago, the command center said that because there is a higher deposit for COVAX, it has priority to choose the vaccine. Huang Limin pointed out that it is better to use the option to choose the BNT vaccine, and the delivery time. it should be as quickly as possible. Return to normal life. (Shen Nengyuan, Xu Zhijia, Zhang Cuilan / Taipei Report)