ABC News
May 29, 2020
By: Rebecca Armitage and Lucia Stein
Taiwan started inspecting passengers arriving from the coronavirus epicentre, Wuhan, on December 31.(AP: Chiang Ying-Ying)
Its proximity to and the number of flights between it and China meant Taiwan — population 23 million — was expected to have a high number of cases of COVID-19, one research paper has noted.
And yet months later, as some countries struggle with the ongoing toll of the pandemic, Taiwan seems to have the coronavirus under control.
It by no means completely escaped the virus. As of May 27, Taiwan has had 441 confirmed COVID-19 cases and seven deaths. But it's not nearly as hard hit as some had feared.
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