Taiwan is progressively moving towards coexistence with the virus. The new entrance system “0 + 7” starts today. All participants no longer need to be quarantined at home, but instead adopt 7-day self-prevention. ”However, the US Travel Status Notice still lists Taiwan as a strict border control level 3 Command center commander Wang Bisheng said he was reported to the US side by the foreign embassy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In response to the US travel alert for Taiwan still at level 3, if the outside world is concerned that it is related to the US determining that the outbreak situation in Taiwan is severe, Wang Bisheng reiterated in news conference on the outbreak this afternoon that the trip status alert announcement on the official website of the US State Department is primarily about 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 as of today and that those entering the country no longer need to be quarantined at home. asymptomatic people in possession of a negative certificate of rapid screening within 2 days can pass freely. Communicate with the US to correct the level and the follow up will continue to track the status of the level change. Additionally, it is understood that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have 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 land in Taiwan soon. Wang Bisheng believes that now that global trade has returned to normal, the new variants will not just enter Taiwan, it will enter every country in the world and Europe appears to have a new wave of epidemics just around the corner.
Regarding Omicron’s BF.7 mutant strain, which worries the outside world, Wang Bisheng said that the characteristics and related data are not yet complete.Let’s first look at the new wave of epidemics in Europe to understand if BF.7 is became the main strain of the epidemic. Although PCR testing is no longer performed at the airport of entry at this stage, people with symptoms will still collect saliva for testing and samples will be sent to the laboratory for gene sequencing to facilitate monitoring of imported mutants.
As for whether mutant BF.7 could replace BA.5 as the main viral strain in December of this year, Luo Yijun, deputy head of the command center’s medical response team, said the international community believes it can replace BA. 5 not only BF.7, but also XBB.1 Variant strains, no expert can accurately predict which viral strains will be the majority by the end of this year Candidates for the next wave of traditional viral strains are on the rise, and everything remains to be monitored and observed.
(Editor in chief: Zhuang Yanyu)
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