page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
section_title: Preventive measures
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan / Preventive measures
caption_attribution_description: 中文（台灣）‎: 2020年1月25日上午，庚子年大年初一參拜行天宮。時逢新型冠狀病毒肺炎大流行，多數人均戴口罩。
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The pandemic has had a much smaller impact in Taiwan than in most other industrialised countries, with a total of seven deaths as of 11 May 2020. The number of active cases peaked on 6 April at 307 cases, the majority of which were imported.
  The virus was confirmed to have spread to Taiwan on 21 January 2020, from a 50-year-old woman who had been teaching in Wuhan, China. The Taiwanese government integrated data from the national health care system, immigration, and customs authorities to aid in the identification and response to the virus. Government efforts are coordinated through the National Health Command Center of the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, established to aid in disaster management for epidemics following the 2004 SARS outbreak.
  The Journal of the American Medical Association says Taiwan engaged in 124 discrete action items to prevent the spread of the disease, including early screening of flights from Mainland China and the tracking of individual cases.
caption: Surgical masks used by people in Taiwan
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