In the second stage, the willingness to register for monkeypox vaccination was expanded to 30,000.

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[Reporter Lin Huiqin/Taipei Report] "Monkeypox Vaccination Registration Platform (https://mpox.cdc.gov.tw/)" will open the second phase of registration at 2 pm tomorrow. Luo Yijun, deputy director of the Department of Disease Control of the Ministry of Health and Welfare It said today that Penghu County has been added to the vaccination counties and cities, the number of cooperative hospitals has expanded from 48 announced last week to 50, and the number of registered places has also increased from 25,000 to 30,000.

In response to the self-assessment of the public’s self-assessment of “has had high-risk sexual behavior in the past 6 months”, registration of willingness to receive the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) monkeypox vaccine can be carried out at 2 pm tomorrow, and you can choose the hospital where you want to go for the vaccination.

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Luo Yijun said that in addition to the counties and cities on the island, Penghu County has also joined. At present, a total of 20 counties and cities provide vaccination services. After continuous coordination and updates, Linkou Changgung Hospital and the Penghu Branch of the Third General Hospital will be added. There will be 50 hospitals that can vaccinate. Therefore, the upper limit of the willingness registration platform is increased to 30,000 people.

The Monkeypox Vaccine Voluntary Registration Platform will open at 2:00 pm tomorrow, and will be open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm from Monday to Friday, and closed on weekends and holidays. Considering factors such as improving herd immunity and vaccine coverage, it is now In the stage of PrEP vaccination, it is still a principle to inoculate 1 dose by "intradermal" injection first.

Since my country listed monkeypox as a second-class legal infectious disease on June 23 last year, a total of 23 cases have been confirmed, including 16 local cases, distributed in Taipei City, 3 cases in New Taipei City, Kaohsiung City and Hsinchu County. 2 cases each, 1 case each in Yilan County, Miaoli County, Hsinchu City, and Yunlin County, and 7 cases imported from abroad. Infected countries include Germany, the United States, Austria, and Japan.

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