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Date: November 7th, 2020
By: Andy Kang-I Chen
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vancouver director general Andy Kang-I Chen (second from right) has made several donations of personal protective equipment to B.C. organizations.
Thanks to a rapid response and advance preparedness, Taiwan’s per-million cases and deaths are very low: 0.03 deaths per 100,000. Taiwan with a population of 23.5 million has just 568 infections and seven deaths.
Meanwhile, life and work have continued much as normal for the majority of people. For instance, Taiwan’s National Day celebration took place in Keelung City earlier in October with a crowd of about 12,000 people.
On October 31, approximately 130,000 people attended the annual Taiwan LGBT Pride in Taipei, making it the world’s biggest in-person LGBTQ celebration since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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