Taiwan is gradually moving towards coexistence with the virus. The new “0+7” entry system starts today. All entrants no longer need to be quarantined at home, and instead adopt 7-day self-prevention. “. However, the U.S. travel status warning still lists Taiwan as a strict border control level 3. The commander of the command center, Wang Bisheng, said that it has been reported to the U.S. side by the foreign embassy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In response to the U.S. travel alert for Taiwan still at level 3, whether the outside world is concerned regarding whether it is related to the fact that the U.S. determines that the epidemic situation in Taiwan is serious, Wang Bisheng reiterated at the press conference on the epidemic this followingnoon that the travel status alert announcement on the U.S. State Department’s official website is mainly for border control measures. Classification, since April this year, Taiwan has been included in Level 3, the purpose is to remind Americans to go to Taiwan to take quarantine measures, of which the greatest impact is isolation.
Wang Bisheng further explained that Taiwan’s border control measures have been lifted from today, and those entering the country no longer need to be quarantined at home. During the 7-day self-epidemic prevention period, asymptomatic persons holding a negative certificate of rapid screening within 2 days can go out freely. Communicate with the U.S. to correct the level, and follow-up will continue to track the status of the level change. In addition, it is understood that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has no COVID-19 travel alerts.
New variants of COVID-19 continue to appear internationally, and the Taiwan border will be unblocked today. Many experts warn that new variants will soon land in Taiwan. Wang Bisheng believes that now that global exchanges have returned to normal, the new variants will not only Entering Taiwan, it will enter every country in the world, and Europe seems to have a new wave of epidemics just around the corner.
Regarding the BF.7 mutant strain of Omicron, which is of concern to the outside world, Wang Bisheng said that the characteristics and related data are not yet complete. We can first observe the new wave of epidemics in Europe to understand whether BF.7 has become the mainstream strain of the epidemic. Although PCR testing is no longer carried out at the airport of entry at this stage, people with symptoms will still collect saliva for testing, and the samples will be sent to the laboratory for gene sequencing to facilitate monitoring of imported mutants.
As for whether the mutant BF.7 may replace BA.5 as the mainstream virus strain in December this year, Luo Yijun, deputy head of the medical response team of the command center, said that the international community believes that it may replace BA.5 not only BF.7, but also XBB.1 Variant strains, no expert can accurately predict which virus strains will be the majority by the end of this year. Candidates for the next wave of mainstream virus strains are in the ascendant, and everything remains to be monitored and observed.
(Editor-in-Chief: Zhuang Yanyu)
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