Due to the outbreak of local community transmission of COVID-19 in Taiwan, people’s willingness to be vaccinated has greatly increased. The command center announced that 2 million doses of vaccine will arrive in Taiwan before the end of June. By then, 6 types of vaccination stations will be opened, with the goal of vaccinating 1 million doses per week. In order to speed up the vaccination against COVID-19 and divert the public for vaccination to avoid cluster infections, Executive Yuan political commissar Tang Feng will launch a “vaccination appointment platform” as soon as mid-June.
Which people are listed as priority targets for vaccination? What is the “vaccination appointment platform”? Here is a summary:
1. Taiwan’s COVID-19 vaccine arrival status and priority recipients:
Due to the outbreak of local community infections in Taiwan’s COVID-19 epidemic in mid-May, people’s willingness to be vaccinated has greatly increased. The third echelon of vaccination has been carried out, and the fourth and fifth echelons of vaccination will be carried out successively.
In addition to the 20 million vaccines that the government has ordered externally, which will gradually arrive,Japanese media reported that Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga recently announced at a meeting hosted by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization that Japan would donate 30 million doses of domestically produced AZ vaccine. In addition to being distributed through the COVAX organization, these vaccines will also be directly supplied to countries or regions in need. Taiwan is directly supplied by the Japanese government, so the command center’s announcement that 2 million doses of vaccines will arrive in Taiwan before the end of June is not groundless.
Which people are listed as priority targets for vaccination? According to the standards set by the “Vaccination Group of the Consultation Committee on Infectious Disease Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Health and Welfare”, the priority order of vaccination is as follows:
Note: Priority is subject to the latest announcement from the command center
2. What is the “Vaccination Reservation Platform”?
In order to speed up the vaccination of the public, the command center announced that it will open six types of vaccination stations, including hospitals, health clinics, clinics, community vaccination stations, community vaccination stations, and large-scale vaccination stations, with the goal of vaccinating 1 million doses per week.
In order to divert people for vaccination, Executive Yuan political commissar Tang Feng combined the National Health Insurance Express and the mask reservation mechanism to launch a “vaccination reservation platform” as soon as mid-June. Each vaccination site will provide public reservations one week before opening/starting. People can make reservations and receive vaccinations through mobile phones/computers (National Health Insurance Autopass APP), four major supermarkets and pharmacies.
After the vaccination, you can receive the vaccination record card and put a sticker on the health insurance card. The data will also be automatically uploaded to the mobile health insurance Autopass APP to facilitate querying vaccination-related information.
Since people are currently very willing to get vaccinated, and many of the people listed as priority for vaccination are elderly people over 50 years old, it is expected that there will be long queues of people making appointments at the four major supermarkets and pharmacies, so making vaccination appointments through the “Medicare Autotoll” APP will be the easiest way.
How to apply for “Health Insurance Autopass”?
The “Health Insurance Auto Pass” APP officially launched by the Central Health Insurance Agency of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. After downloading, you only need to enter your personal ID card number, mobile phone number, and the last 4 digits of the health insurance card number, and then set a set of health insurance passwords to bind the device. No card reader is required. You can complete the Health Insurance Auto Pass APP registration through your mobile phone. For details, see [This article】。
Since the [Vaccination Reservation Platform] has not yet been launched, and in the initial stage of the launch, it still needs to be coordinated with factors such as the quantity of vaccine purchases and the distribution of the order of administration. The actual operation can only be further summarized after it is actually launched. However, political commissar Tang Feng has always had a reputation for taking action, and the [vaccination appointment platform] should be worth the public’s expectations.
As for the arrival speed of the vaccine, which is far slower than the expectations of the Chinese people, many people question whether the [vaccination appointment platform] is available and is of no use to me? The following is what the moderator said:
Note: Source of pictures in this article: Central Command Center and major media
Source: KOCPC Chinese