Today (2022/06/14) Kuomintang (KMT) Culture and Communications Committee held a press conference this morning. Former director of Health Promotion Administration Chios Shu-it (邱淑媞), candidate of New Taipei city councilor Dai Siang-yi Dai(戴湘儀), and Deputy Director of Culture and Communications Committee He Zhi-yong (何志勇) also attend. Chios Shu-ti pointed out that “the. shortage of rapid test kits causes the dark figure of diagnosis, because of it, the patient misses the opportunity to receive medicine.” Let us have the incidence curve like New Zealand and the mortality rate curve like South Korea. The mortality rate in a single day had already surpassed South Korea’s high peak. But the government is just trying to make the illusion like the pandemic is over. He Zhi-yong appealed to Chen Shih-chung not to turn a blind eye to the death toll.
He Zhi-yong explained the effect of coronavirus to the death toll, besides the official confirmed deaths, it also included the dark figure that the Ministry of Health and Welfare did not confirm the cause of death was COVID. Those infected whose tests were not positive but eventually died are part of the dark figure. There were other dark figure cases when the deceased had chronic health conditions and could not get the needed medical attention.
The crucial situation in May was beyond description. The death rate was 184%, representing a double increase. The collapse of the Taiwan population structure was emerging. Decisions such as closing the border, the border entry wide screening, and the positive test result equal to diagnosed are barely made after New Taipei City’s Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) talked to the central government.
A few days before the Central Epidemic Command Center admitted that what happened this year would redefine the meaning of confirmed death, “the main cause of death must be COVID-19 or related to COVID-19 after research.” After the redefinition, the CECC removed 603 cases out of the record. He Zhi-yong appealed to Chen Shih-chung not to turn a blind eye to the death toll and should publish the figure of death due to diagnosis and when diagnosed.
