Taiwan still the poster child for managing Covid-19

Residents shopping at an open-air market in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 8 2020. Picture: REUTERS/ANN WANGAs the coronavirus pandemic sparks global lockdowns, life has continued comparatively unhindered in places such as Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong after their governments and citizens took decisive early action against the unfolding crisis.

“Countries such as Taiwan are exemplary,” Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is funneling billions into vaccine research, told Fox News this week. “And so they won’t either have the disease burden or the economic effect that other countries will have.” Jason Wang, a Stanford Medicine professor who co-wrote the study, said those steps bought Taiwan crucial time to ramp up testing and mask production.

At its peak, 909 new infections were found in one day. In total, on Tuesday, more than 10,300 people have been confirmed infected in South Korea with 200 deaths. But six weeks on, Daegu registered its first single-digit daily rise in confirmed cases. That allowed them to avoid the kind of complete lockdowns seen across a growing swathe of the globe. But infections have spiked in recent weeks as residents return home to flee the growing outbreaks in Europe and North America.

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