COVID-19 prevention measures in Taiwan have been strengthened, following the first reported case of domestic COVID-19 transmission since April and the first imported case of a new strain of COVID-19 originally detected in the UK that many experts believe may be more infectious than the original strain...
Taiwan reported its first case of the local transmission of COVID-19 since April today, ending a streak of 253 days without domestic transmission of COVID-19 in Taiwan...
Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will be strengthened today, with mask-wearing again mandated in eight forms of public venues including public transportation, educational facilities, government offices, entertainment establishments, places of worship, and other places...
The Tsai administration has moved to strengthen COVID-19 prevention measures in the past few days. The Tsai administration’s actions are in response to an anticipated wave of returnees for the Lunar New Year Holiday, as well as because of an uptick in imported COVID-19 cases over the past month that has brought Taiwan’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 609...
Taiwan failed to secure admission to the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organization, again this year due to Chinese pressure...
A dispute regarding COVID-19 testing recently broke out between the Changhua county government, and the Centers for Disease Control, the national body under the Ministry of Health and Welfare that coordinates Taiwan’s fight against COVID-19...
American Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar ended a four-day visit to Taiwan today, visiting the Taipei Guest House to pay his respects to recently deceased former president Lee Teng-hui before returning to America on a flight scheduled for the afternoon...
Student demonstrators held a press conference outside of the Ministry of Education today, criticizing the announcement by the ministry yesterday that, while students from foreign countries enrolled in degree programs will be allowed to return to Taiwan, Chinese students will be excluded...
News that American Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar plans to visit Taiwan as part of a diplomatic visit in the near future is ironic, given America’s disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. While Azar’s visit to Taiwan will be conducted under the auspices of seeking to learn from Taiwan’s successes fighting off the COVID-19 pandemic, one generally expects this to be primarily political theater...
Taiwan marked one hundred days since the last case of domestic transmission of COVID-19 on July 17th, with the last case of local COVID-19 transmission having taken place on April 8th. It appears as though the COVID-19 situation is still under control in Taiwan, Taiwan having managed to avoid the expansive lockdowns that the rest of the world has seen. However, with the second and third waves of COVID-19 taking place globally and five new imported cases added today, Taiwan is likely to see an uptick in imported cases going forward...
