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The head of the Taiwan Medical Agency and Central Taiwan Anti-Epidemic Command Center (CECC), Mr. Tran Thoi Trung (Chen Shih-chung) – Photo: CNA
As the Lunar New Year holiday approaches, Taiwanese businessmen complain that they still have to go through a 14-day quarantine when traveling from mainland China to Taiwan. When they return to mainland China, they will be quarantined for another 14 days, taking almost a month.
Some in the Taiwanese business community are lobbying in hopes that Taiwanese land authorities will implement a “New Year’s bubble” (similar to a “tourism bubble”) to help Taiwanese businessmen cut back. significantly reduces quarantine time.
However, the page Taiwan News On January 15, reporting in a recent interview, the head of the Taiwanese health agency Tran Thoi Trung confirmed that he would not consider the bubble model as the previous one. “Can’t people notice the epidemic in China?” asked Mr. Tran.
The Taiwanese official said the COVID-19 epidemic in Hebei province, near China’s capital Beijing, is “very similar” to the situation in Wuhan, where the first cases of COVID-19 were reported. At the end of 2019. Three cities in this province, including Thach Gia Trang, Hinh Dai and Langfang, with a total of 22 million people, were blocked this week.
Police and anti-epidemic officers search vehicles at a checkpoint in Gaocheng District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, China, on January 5 – Photo: REUTERS
Tran Thoi Trung, who is also the head of the Central Taiwan Anti-Epidemic Command Center (CECC), said that in some parts of China, authorities applied 14 days of centralized isolation, plus 7 days. isolation at home. Some other places also apply up to 14 days of concentrated isolation and 14 days of home isolation.
From the above measures, the Taiwanese official said that it could be inferred that the epidemic situation in Hebei province was “really very serious.”
On January 25, 2020, while the world continued to dream of the dangers of the emergence of COVID-19 in China, there were two islands that registered four infections in their territory, Australia and Taiwan.
However, with timely measures such as border controls, Taiwan has been effective against the epidemic, with only 843 infections and 7 deaths caused by COVID-19 after one year (according to the Worldometers update at 6 p.m. January 15, 2021).
China: first 8 months of death from COVID-19
Bed sheet The Hoan Cau Times According to China’s January 15, a centralized medical surveillance center is being built in the city of Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province, and is the center of the latest outbreak of COVID-19 in China. Another outbreak that attracted attention was in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province.
Photo taken on Jan. 14 shows the construction of a centralized medical surveillance center in Thach Gia Trang city, Ha Bac province – Photo: THX
Hebei Province just recorded the death of COVID-19 on January 14 and this is the first death caused by COVID-19 in China in about 8 months. The Hoan Cau Times He said this death exposed the loopholes in fighting epidemics in rural areas here.
According to Reuters, the first COVID-19 case in Hebei was confirmed on January 3, but medical experts believe that the epidemic may have quietly spread here as of November 2020.
