200 Days With No Local Case Makes Taiwan World’s Envy

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200 Days With No Local Case Makes Taiwan World’s Envy

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Taiwan has achieved a different kind of record -- more than 200 days without a locally transmitted case.

Taiwan holds the world’s best virus record by far and reached the 200-day landmark on Thursday. Its last local case came on April 12; there has been no second wave. On Friday, it reached 201 days without a local case.

It has had 553 confirmed cases, with only seven deaths. Experts say closing borders early and tightly regulating travel have gone a long way toward fighting the virus. Other factors include rigorous contact tracing, technology-enforced quarantine and widespread mask wearing.

Community transmission has been eliminated there, said Peter Collignon, an infectious disease physician and professor at the Australian National University Medical School.

Taiwan will likely be among the few economies to grow this year, with the government in August forecasting that the gross domestic product will expand 1.56% in 2020.

nothing works without contact tracing people who have tested positive and then quarantining them, said Chen Chien-jen, Taiwan’s former vice president and an epidemiologist

those who break quarantine face fines of up to NT$1million ($35,000).
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