222 days without COVID in Taiwan: what are the reasons for this success?

Chia-Yen Dai; Ting-Hsuan Dai; Wang-Huei Sheng; Chi-Kung Ho

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa225

222 days without COVID in Taiwan: what are the reasons for this success?

J Travel Med. 2021 Feb 23;28(2):taaa225. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa225.

Authors

Chia-Yen Dai^{1

2

3}, Ting-Hsuan Dai⁴, Wang-Huei Sheng⁴, Chi-Kung Ho^{2

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
² Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
³ School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁴ School of Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei City, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Public Health, College of Health Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁶ Department of Community Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Abstract

The second wave of COVID-19 has been reported in many countries such as Vietnam after 99 days without any further local transmission since the first wave. Here we report on the success story in Taiwan in fighting the COVID-19, currently keeping 222 days without an indigenous case of COVID.

Keywords: COVID-19; Taiwan; travel.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / prevention & control*
Contact Tracing / methods
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
Humans
Masks
Physical Distancing
Quarantine / methods
SARS-CoV-2
Taiwan / epidemiology
Travel / legislation & jurisprudence