China has been the first case of the imported H7N9 avian influenza, the epidemic continued to spread to the mainland. The legislators worried mainland tourists may enter Taiwan tourism in the incubation period of the disease, caused by the epidemic out of control, requiring the Department of Health as soon as possible deliberation to amend the relevant way to reduce the opportunity of mainland tourists to Taiwan caused by the spread of the epidemic, the CDC also said that to change the Act needs to be studied.
Communicable Disease Control Act after the establishment of the epidemic command center, the commander permission can determine whether publicly funded medical expenses for the isolation of patients cope. Legislators worried mainland upcoming May Day holiday, the influx of mainland tourists to guests may be in the incubation period of the virus the incoming H7N9 virus, resulting in the spread of the epidemic in Taiwan, the Legislative Yuan Economic Commission for the 29th through the main resolutions require the CDC to amend the law to do immigration screening, and the flexibility to adjust the use of public funds to pay medical expenses isolation foreign patients permission.
CDC director Zhang Fengyi, said that the Department of Health is communication, and the Executive Yuan intends to amend the law, are not covered by the nationalities of the non-epidemic isolated medical expenses.
Zhang Fengyi: "infected Prevention Act forced isolation, the budget was, the thing is no matter what is thy people, even stateless, too, as long as it is because of legal obligations to his isolation, fear lest it spread, but when the epidemic The command center set up to the commander's authority how much there is no space, we now make haste deliberation. "
However, for screening patients at immigration checkpoints, Zhang Fengyi, H7N9 There is no conclusive evidence of human-to-human transmission, the World Health Organization recommended that countries do not travel control and immigration screening. http://news.chinatimes.com/realtime/110101/112013042900829.html
