A recent CNN report has called Taiwan's response to the Covid-19 pandemic among the best in the world. Here are some of the measures that Taiwan took early on before the coronavirus was even declared a pandemic:

  • Rapidly producing and implementing a 124-items action list which included banning travel from several parts of China
  • Stopping cruise ships from docking in its ports
  • Introducing strict punishments for violating the home quarantine order
  • Ramping up production of face masks
  • Introducing testing across the island

Taiwan has less than 400 cases of the virus.

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