Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Taiwan just went 200 days without a locally transmitted Covid-19 case. Here's how they did it
While many European countries have reinitiated restrictive measures to cope with the second wave of coronavirus pandemic, such as lockdowns, curfews, and business closures, Taiwan has been nearly covid-19 free for over six months. With a population of 23 million, which is approximately one-third of France or the UK, or just about half of Spain, there are only a little over 500 confirmed cases in the country, which seems fewer than an hour of infections occurring in those European countries. How did they do it?
They seem to have been well prepared for such an outbreak of infectious disease. They learned a lesson from the SARS pandemic in 2003. Also, they were quick to move. In fact, they restricted entries from Wuhan, China even before the then-epicenter initiated their lockdown. And they deployed a targeted approach rather than a mass-shooting method. Thanks to the IT-literal government, they launched careful contact tracing and targeted quarantines. Sounds like a rifle-shooting approach rather than a shot-gun approach, which is commonly adopted by most other countries.
In a summary, they were prepared, quick to move, and efficient to shoot the target.
Read the article and learn how important to learn a lesson from the past.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/29/asia/taiwan-covid-19-intl-hnk/index.html
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