Taiwan actively cooperates with the international community to fight the epidemic. The Chinese Academy of Research today (30) announced that Jordan Reeves, the director of the Canadian Office in Taiwan, has met with the president of the Chinese Academy of Research Liao Junzhi. In addition to cooperating in the fast screening, he also talked about pathology and epidemics. We will seek further cooperation in response to the study. Gradually, the Ministry of Economic Affairs also stated that Taiwan and Australia reached an agreement on epidemic prevention materials and will exchange alcohol raw materials and non-woven materials.
During the COVID-19 (Wuhan pneumonia) epidemic, the Taiwanese government and the private sector demonstrated strong anti-epidemic capabilities, and Taiwan-made products have also emerged internationally. Following the signing of a joint statement on the partnership between Taiwan and the United States, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs actively coordinated with Australia has also reached cooperation on anti-epidemic materials.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs pointed out that the Australian side is willing to provide a national purchase of 1 million liters of alcohol raw materials, which can produce 330 ml of 75% epidemic-disinfecting alcohol for a total of 4.22 million bottles; or it has agreed to provide Australia to purchase 3 tons with sufficient domestic capacity Non-woven material. The cooperation in fighting the epidemic is expected to benefit some people in Taiwan and Macau again and achieve a win-win situation.
In addition, Taiwan and Canada will join hands to fight the epidemic in the future. Rui Jordan said in a tweet that Taiwan ’s epidemic resistance is obvious to all, and the research institute ’s breakthrough in rapid screening research and development is encouraging. I hope to maintain close contact in the future to fight COVID-19 . Liao Junzhi said that in addition to the fast-screening cooperation, the meeting also discussed the aspects of pathology and epidemiology, and will seek further cooperation.
The Academia Sinica has established a COVID-19 epidemic prevention platform with 13 sub-platforms in the United Nations in February. It hopes that through the open scientific spirit, it will promote innovative cooperation between scientists and start research and development from screening, drugs, antibodies, vaccines and other aspects; Recently, we also discussed the epidemic prevention strategy with the United States, the European Union, and the Czech Republic and shared the current research results.
