萨摩亚逮捕反疫苗激进分子

萨摩亚逮捕反疫苗激进分子

Samoan authorities have arrested a prominent anti-vaccination activist amid an outbreak that has killed at least 63 people, most of them children.

萨摩亚当局逮捕了一名著名的反疫苗活动人士，目前疫情已造成至少63人死亡，其中大多数是儿童。

Edwin Tamasese has been charged with "incitement against a government order," according to the BBC.

据BBC报道，埃德温·塔马塞塞被控“煽动违反政府命令”。

Government officials say anti-vaccination advocates such as Tamasese have complicated their sweeping efforts to turn the tide on the highly contagious disease that has sickened more than 4,300 people on the independent Pacific islands.

政府官员说，反疫苗接种的倡导者，如塔马塞塞，使他们为扭转这一高度传染性疾病所做的广泛努力复杂化，这种高传染性疾病已经导致太平洋独立岛屿上的4300多人患病。

The government has declared a state of emergency and ordered mandatory vaccinations. It shut schools indefinitely. This week, it launched a door-to-door mass vaccination campaign, asking families to pin a piece of red cloth on their homes if they haven't been vaccinated.

政府已经宣布进入紧急状态，并下令强制接种疫苗。它无限期地关闭学校。本周，它发起了一场挨家挨户的大规模疫苗接种运动，要求没有接种疫苗的家庭在家里贴上一块红布。

On Thursday and Friday, the government closed all of its offices except public utilities, so that civil servants could focus on the campaign. Officials say more than 20,000 people have received vaccines.

周四和周五，政府关闭了除公共设施外的所有办公室，以便公务员能够专注于这场运动。有关官员说，已有2万多人接种了疫苗。

"Let us work together to ... convince those that do not believe that vaccinations are the only answer to the epidemic. Let us not be distracted by the promise of alternative cures," Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said earlier this week.

“让我们一起努力……”说服那些不相信接种疫苗是解决流行病的唯一办法的人。让我们不要被替代疗法的承诺分心，”总理图伊拉埃帕·塞莱莱·马利埃莱埃奥伊本周早些时候表示。

The anti-vaccination movement "unfortunately has been slowing us down," Samoa's minister of communication, Afamasaga Lepuiai Rico Tupai, told New Zealand's 1 News Now.

萨摩亚通讯部长阿法马萨告里皮瑞克涂派诉新西兰的1News now，反疫苗运动“不幸地拖慢了我们的脚步”。

Tupai blamed "anti-vaxxers" for the deaths of children. "We find out it's the message of anti-vaxx that's got to these families. ... What we say to them is, 'Don't be in the way of government. Don't be contributing to the deaths and the numbers rising.' "

涂派将儿童死亡归咎于“反疫苗的人”。“我们发现这是反疫苗的信息，影响了这些家庭。我们对他们说的是，‘不要妨碍政府。不要造成死亡人数的上升。’”

As Tamasese was being taken into custody, he spoke out again on social media against the vaccine, falsely claiming that a combination of vitamin C and sodium ascorbate, a mineral salt of ascorbic acid, can cure the disease. "This will save your kids," was posted on Facebook before.

当塔马塞塞被拘留时，他再次在社交媒体上公开反对疫苗，谎称维生素C和抗坏血酸钠(一种抗坏血酸矿盐)的组合可以治愈这种疾病。“这将拯救你的孩子，”他之前在脸书上发布到。

Response to Tamasese's arrest has ranged from support from people who call him a hero to derision from critics who accuse him of worsening a deadly crisis.

人们对塔马塞塞被捕的反应不一，有人说他是英雄，也有人说他让一场致命的危机雪上加霜。

In a speech on Thursday, Simona Marinescu, the United Nations resident coordinator for the region, called the outbreak "one of the greatest challenges that this country experienced in its recent history."

在周四的一次演讲中，联合国该地区驻地协调员西蒙娜·马里内斯库称疫情“是这个国家近年来经历的最大挑战之一”。

Last week, the Samoan government asked the U.N. for help in controlling the epidemic.

上周，萨摩亚政府请求联合国帮助控制疫情。

Vaccination rates in Samoa have dramatically dipped in recent years, according to a new report from UNICEF. Coverage "plummeted from 58 per cent in 2017 to just 31 per cent in 2018, largely due to misinformation and mistrust among parents." UNICEF says vaccination rates of at least 95% are needed to prevent outbreaks.

根据联合国儿童基金会的一份新报告，萨摩亚的疫苗接种率近年来急剧下降。医疗保险的覆盖率“从2017年的58%骤降至2018年的31%，这主要是由于家长的误导和不信任。”联合国儿童基金会表示，至少需要95%的疫苗接种率才能防止疫情爆发。

The government's campaign has given that effort a huge boost. It said that as of Thursday, 82% of children under 5 on Samoa's two main islands are vaccinated.

政府的活动极大地推动了这一努力。该组织说，截至周四，萨摩亚两个主要岛屿上五岁以下儿童中有82%接种了疫苗。