After lifting the isolation of COVID-19 patients and allowing outbound travel on the 8th of the following month, Mainland China yesterday announced that the Spring Festival 40-day travel season will begin on the 7th of next month. some people will go to various places or travel. Due to the severity of the epidemic situation in the mainland, Taiwan decided yesterday that all passengers arriving from the mainland will need to undergo nucleic acid testing from the 1st of next month. Premier Su Zhenchang also said that he will consider whether to resume the mini – three connections between Kinmen and Matsu on the 7th of next month.
Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center said that while tourists from the mainland are not allowed to enter the country, an estimated 30,000 people will travel from the mainland to Taiwan during the Spring Festival. In the face of the current epidemic situation in the mainland, it was decided that from the early morning of the 1st of next month to the 31st of next month, all mainland passengers arriving in Taiwan should undergo nucleic acid testing at Taiwan airport. arrival or port, and then self-prevention and rapid test at the residence for 7 days. , or you can complete the quarantine after 7 days of quarantine).
As for the epidemic situation on the mainland, 5,136 new local cases were confirmed the day before yesterday: only Guangdong (2,233 cases) and Beijing (892 cases) had more than half of the cases and 3 people died from the disease. Although there were only 125 new confirmed cases in Sichuan yesterday, the Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of the second round of the “New Crown Infection Survey” in the province. %, or more than 100,000 people, have tested positive for nucleic acid or COVID-19 infections. More than 70% of them had fever and cough; 28% of respondents had not been tested but had symptoms such as fever and cough. It is estimated that the infection rate should be higher than 63.52%.
According to the authorities in Chengdu, Sichuan, the number of outpatient visits to fever clinics in the local area has decreased by nearly 60% since the previous peak period, and many local nucleic acid testing stations have been converted to services of fever diagnosis and treatment stations, but the emergency departments of many hospitals in the city are full of waiting patients , Even waiting for consultations outdoors in the cold winter, many netizens pointed out that whether it is a tertiary hospital with the best resources or a rehabilitation hospital, a bed is hard to find.
Domestic new corona oral drug completes clinical trial
However, there is also good news for the treatment of the new crown: The domestic oral drug “SIM0417” for the treatment of the new crown completed the third phase of clinical trials this month and will be launched no earlier than February next year. The drug was jointly developed by Simcere Pharmaceuticals, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Jiangsu Provincial Food and Drug Administration said it will approve it as soon as possible.
For the remainder of the outbreak, Macau saw an increase of 86 confirmed local cases and 2 more deaths in the previous day; Taiwan has recorded 27,942 new local cases of infection and another 25 deaths.
Originally released on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/China/Sichuan At least 63 people diagnosed: mainland tourists arriving in Taiwan next week for landing tests/354799?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
