COVID-19: Online virus chatbot set up for migrant workers
Staff writer, with CNA
The Ministry of Labor yesterday said it has set up an automated chatbot service on the messaging app Line to provide migrant workers with easier access to COVID-19 information in their native language.
Called “1955 E-Line,” the Workforce Development Agency said the service was set up to ensure migrant workers can access disease prevention information.
Available in four languages English, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Thai the service focuses on promoting information related to disease prevention efforts, the agency said.
The agency said that it plans to provide more information through the Line service, including regulations on the employment of migrant workers, frequently asked questions and other information pertaining to living in the nation.
The next two weeks are critical for containing the COVID-19 outbreak, which hinges on the cooperation of confirmed cases and the public, infectious-disease experts said on Saturday.
After a sharp spike in cases, the Central Epidemic Command Center on Saturday raised the pandemic alert for Taipei and New Taipei City to level 3 until May 28.
While serious, Taiwan would make it through if the outbreak is contained over the next two weeks, said Chen Yee-chun (陳宜君), director of National Taiwan University Hospital’s (NTUH) Division of Infectious Diseases.
Cases have been climbing so rapidly due in part to the reluctance of confirmed cases
Taiwan has been widely applauded for its management of the pandemic, with one of the lowest per capita Covid-19 rates in the world and life on the island largely returning to normal.
Just 11 people have died from Covid-19 in Taiwan since the pandemic began, an impressive feat for a country that never went into lockdown.
At the start of the pandemic, Taiwan was considered a high-risk country for Covid-19 due to its proximity to China and the frequent travel that takes place between the two countries.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has examined further just why Taiwan did so well at conquering Covid-19. The study’s authors, from a range of health institutes and hospitals in Taiwan and the US, compared the estimated effectiveness of two types of Covid-19 policy in the early months of the pandemic: case-based and population-based measures.
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Just 11 people have died from COVID-19 in Taiwan since the pandemic began, an impressive feat for a country that never went into lockdown.
At the start of the pandemic, Taiwan was considered a high-risk country for COVID-19 due to its proximity to China and the frequent travel that takes place between the two countries.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association has examined further just why Taiwan did so well at conquering COVID-19. The study’s authors, from a range of health institutes and hospitals in Taiwan and the US, compared the estimated effectiveness of two types of COVID-19 policy in the early months of the pandemic: case-based and population-based measures.
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