Taiwan currently strengthened its measures, to counteract a possible epidemic of bird flu H7N9 after there has now been the first human case on Taiwan. Taiwan currently strengthened its measures, to counteract a possible epidemic of bird flu H7N9 after there has now been the first human case on Taiwan. The 53-year-old patient, who earlier this month by mainland China Suzhou, Jiangsu had returned province, after Taiwan, is in a critical condition and is currently treated in a hospital in quarantine. Taiwan’s Prime Minister Jiang Yi-huah let it be known that there was the biggest risk is that the virus from abroad will introduced to Taiwan. All Central and local government agencies would have to switch to highest alarm level and cooperate in accordance with the applicable control procedures during epidemics. Premier Jiang made these remarks during a visit to the Central epidemic command center (CECC) in Taipei City.
He instructed the Council of Mainland Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of transportation and communication, evaluate the exchange of information about the disease between each side of the Taiwan Strait and to impose travel bans on if necessary. The Premier also said that the Council of agriculture (COA) should impose a ban on cattle slaughter on Taiwan’s wet markets from June 17 to prevent an outbreak of the virus. In return, the COA announced that the ban on May 17, 2013 should apply. The CEEC will in future border inspections, treatment diagnosis for fever patients, quarantine measures, treatment with confirmed disease cases, research into the vaccine production and the procurement of anti-virus drugs hot keep in mind. Jiang Yi-huah said, it could be no delay in the production of H7N9 allow vaccines so that they would be available to a wide public. The Cabinet will if necessary use the national secondary reserves to drugs from other countries to procure. The Mainland Affairs Council a level travel warning yellow “Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Shandong and Zhejiang issued, for five Mainland Chinese provinces as for the cities of Beijing and Shanghai. All Taiwan’s citizens are encouraged to check whether it is currently necessary to travel to these regions and they should be very careful at all times.