Zhuang Renxiang lowered the COVID-19 category: focus on May and June- Life

2023-02-01T09:22:09.904Z

The Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic has lasted for more than 3 years, and countries have successively launched epidemic prevention and control operations. my country is expected to announce the lifting of the ban on indoor masks tomorrow. During the discussion of other matters such as becoming the fourth category, Zhuang Renxiang, spokesman of the Central Epidemic Command Center, said that the downgrade in May and June is the direction of efforts. The latest meeting of the World Health Organization decided that Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) remains at the highest alert level in the world and has not been removed from the "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" (PHEIC), but Zhuang Renxiang pointed out that the meeting also explained that the current It is already a turning point, and it is expected that the meeting will be lifted at the end of April. Hong Ziren, chairman of the Taiwan Medical Management Society, also holds the same view, believing that the WHO meeting at the end of April will remove COVID-19 from the PHEIC list.

Zhuang Renxiang, spokesman of the command center, said that the de-escalation of COVID-19 in May and June is the direction of efforts.

(Information photo, provided by the command center)

[Reporter Lin Huiqin/Report from Taipei] The Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic has lasted for more than 3 years, and countries have successively launched epidemic prevention and control operations. my country is expected to announce the lifting of the ban on indoor masks tomorrow. During discussions on other matters such as changing the fifth category of notifiable infectious disease to the fourth category, Zhuang Renxiang, spokesman of the Central Epidemic Command Center, said that the downgrade in May and June is the direction of efforts.

The latest meeting of the World Health Organization decided that Wuhan pneumonia (new coronavirus disease, COVID-19) remains at the highest alert level in the world and has not been removed from the "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" (PHEIC), but Zhuang Renxiang pointed out that the meeting also explained that the current It is already a turning point, and it is expected that the meeting will be lifted at the end of April.

Hong Ziren, chairman of the Taiwan Medical Management Society, also holds the same view, believing that the WHO meeting at the end of April will remove COVID-19 from the PHEIC list.

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According to foreign media reports, South Korea has lifted the regulations on wearing masks indoors since January 30, and the Japanese government is also expected to loosen the restrictions on wearing masks indoors on May 8, and lower the disease classification of COVID-19 to the same level as influenza. Biden also plans to end the public health and national emergency of COVID-19 on May 11.

Zhuang Renxiang pointed out that Japan and the United States successively adjusted the level of COVID-19 and ended the state of emergency in May. 19 is the time point for the level of statutory infectious diseases, and currently May and June are the direction of efforts.

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Zhuang Renxiang lowered the COVID-19 category: focus on May and June- Life