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2021/05/14 12:53 May 12 saw single-day record of 16,180 people get coronavirus shot in Taiwan. May 12 saw single-day record of 16,180 people get coronavirus shot in Taiwan. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A total of 129,669 people in Taiwan have been given at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Thursday (May 13), accounting for just 0.55 percent of the population, according to the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Taiwan received an initial batch of 117,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in early March. Uptake had been slow due to the low number of COVID-19 cases and people deciding to see first what the side effects are for those who did get inoculated.
2021/05/02 21:28 The app is being launched by Taiwan s Centers for Disease Control and Taiwan AI Labs. (App Store screenshot) The app is being launched by Taiwan s Centers for Disease Control and Taiwan AI Labs. (App Store screenshot) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Taiwan has launched a social distancing app to prevent COVID-19 transmission by tracking the distance between the app s users. Introduced by Taiwan s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Taiwan AI Labs, the social distancing app uses Bluetooth technology and alerts users if they are exposed to confirmed COVID-19 cases. According to the social distancing guidelines issued by Taiwan s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), people are advised to stay at least 1 meter apart outdoors and 1.5 meters apart indoors. The app will notify users if they have been less than 2 meters from a confirmed case for more than two minutes.
Chuang Yin-ching. Photo courtesy of the CDC
By Chiang Yi-ching, CNA staff writer
A little over a year ago, when Taiwanese infectious disease specialist Chuang Yin-ching (莊銀清) was sent to Wuhan, China, to learn more about a new coronavirus that had emerged, there were fewer than 50 reported cases of the disease now known as COVID-19.
People were going about their lives as usual, and there were no signs that an epidemic was brewing in the eastern Chinese city, Chuang told CNA in a recent interview.
Based on the information that was available at the time, there was no way to predict that the disease would spread to 100 million people worldwide, he said.