Taiwan’s Handling of Pandemic a Model for the World, Says Liberal MP

Liberal MP Judy Sgro in a file photo. Taiwan’s successful handling of the COVID-19 outbreak should serve as a model for other countries, Sgro says. (Matthew Little/The Epoch Times)

Epoch Times
Date: May 14, 2020
By: Justina Wheale

Taiwan’s successful handling of the COVID-19 outbreak and the relatively low number of deaths

that resulted should serve as a model for other countries, says Judy Sgro, a Liberal MP and chair of the Canada-Taiwan Friendship Group.

“Their measures should be a model for the rest of the world to follow. They were very active, they were very careful, they protected their people,” Sgro said in a recent interview.

“If the rest of the world had been following Taiwan’s example much sooner, it would have caused much less death.”

Despite Taiwan’s population of 23 million people and its close proximity to China, the island nation has seen only 440 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with seven deaths to date.
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