ROLLING OUT DOSES: The expansion aims to speed up Taiwan’s vaccination drive by making more Moderna jabs available to workers at hospitals, the CECC saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) yesterday demanded that Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) be replaced as head of the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), saying that the epidemic prevention team could no longer lead the public out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chiang made the remarks in a video a day after President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said in an online speech that the government would make constant adjustments to its “anti-pandemic battle formations to ensure Taiwan is not beaten by the virus.”
The KMT has repeatedly urged Tsai to use a different official to lead the government’s
In response to the continued severity of COVID-19 and increasing risk of community transmission in Taiwan, the Central Epidemic Command Center elevated the epidemic warning to level 3 nationwide on May 19. Hospitals across the country, including E-Da Dachang Hospital in Kaohsiung, implemented the new epidemic prevention measures and regulations.
As the outbreak escalated, the hospital’s work environment became unusually different. The demand for general medical treatment has reduced enormously, except for people with chronic diseases, who require regular follow-up visits.
It seems as if people are following the pandemic prevention measures and regulations, staying at home and going out
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has ordered a monoclonal antibody-based drug to treat mild to moderate cases of COVID-19, which it expects to receive by the middle of the month, it said on Friday.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC, announced the drug purchase, but did not identify the medicine or how many doses had been purchased.
A CECC news release indicated that the shipment would have enough doses to treat 1,000 people.
The drug would be used to treat people with mild to moderate symptoms of COVID-19 who are at high risk of developing more