Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Taiwan
#1
Taiwan is interesting.  With quarantines & tracing, they had done a great job of keeping COVID at bay.  With 23.5M people, their total number of cases to a week ago was around 1200 with only 125 or so acquired locally.

But then one case slipped out.  As I understand it, a hotel worker from a hotel where pilots stay (quarantined) got sick, and it wasn't until his 3rd trip to the hospital that he got tested.  Meanwhile, they were getting 20 or so imported cases a day (cases found before they entered the country).

Then we see a typical spread in Taipei (showing indigenous cases, not imported),
Tuesday 5/11 - 7 local cases (a record)
5/12 - 16
5/13 - 29
5/14 - 181
5/15 - 206
5/16 - 333
5/17 - 240
5/18 - 267
5/19 - 286
5/20 - 312
5/21 - 321 + 400 retroactively for the past week.
5/22 - 287 + 170
5/23 - 334 + 256
5/24 - 281 + 261
5/25 - 302 + 331
5/26 - 401 + 266
5/27 - 297 + 258
5/28 - 320 + 166
5/29 - 266 + 89
5/30 - 274 + 73
5/31 - 262 + 65
6/1 - 372 + 177
6/2 - 364 + 219
6/3 - 339 + 133
6/4 - 476 + 35
6/5 - 335 + 8

I hope I'm wrong, but it seems their well-protected tinder has caught fire. I hope they can stamp it out.  I'm worried that their great tracing mechanism that worked so well at their borders may be overwhelmed.

OTOH, the rapid increase in numbers may be coming from a well-working tracing effort that is out rounding up all possible exposures.  However, apparently spread has been partially through brothels, where tracing may not be so easy.  (They do publicly list where each case has been.  I don't know their culture as to whether that would be viewed negatively.)

I think it was Wed. that they had a record number of daily vaccinations (< 12K) of AZ.  Only 315K doses had arrived in Taiwan.  While they've "secured" 20M doses, for instance 5M Moderna aren't due to arrive until late June.  10M of the 20M will be AZ.  They will be producing vaccine locally in July.

I have a relative who took a university position there partly to escape COVID.  He reports that they won't close the restaurants until they have 14 days of 100+ cases a day.  (He is considering his options.)
Reply


Messages In This Thread
Taiwan - by M_T - 05-17-2021, 08:39 AM
RE: Taiwan - by Hurlburt88 - 05-18-2021, 07:29 AM

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)