Asian Countries Control New COVID-19 Cases Without Lockdowns
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outbreaks to deal with recent increases in COVID-19 cases.
Among the nations that reported rising cases since mid-November are Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. Health officials say the increases are likely linked to cooler weather and a rise in citizens flying home from more heavily infected countries.
Facing rising numbers, Asian health officials have been able to limit the spread of COVID-19 more effectively than the United States and some other nations.
Governments have brought back some restrictions, but left most businesses open. They have also avoided full public
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Kuo 郭旭崧
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Amid the threat of pandemics, vaccines have been a major weapon in the fight against them.
Given Taiwan’s complicated international status, the ability to make its own vaccines has been a plank in the government’s epidemic response policy for more than a decade, and the COVID-19 pandemic certainly shows that this policy is a step in the right direction.
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Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that all of the seven had provided a negative COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test result issued within three days of boarding a plane to Taiwan and that only one of them developed symptoms during quarantine.
People wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus in downtown Taipei on Nov. 30. (AP Photo)
TAIPEI Taiwan has set a goal to vaccinate 60 percent of its population with a COVID-19 vaccine, or 15 million people, a health official said Tuesday.
Taiwan has signed an agreement with COVAX to purchase a COVID-19 vaccine, but is also actively in talks with vaccine companies who have candidates in phase 3 trials for a potential bilateral agreement as well, said Jing-Hui Yang, a deputy director at the Central Epidemic Command Center. COVAX, a global plan to distribute vaccines equally, has not yet started sending out shipments of vaccines.
Asia Today: Maldives considers burying Sri Lankan Muslims
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 4:44 am EDT
A man wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks under the yellow leaves of gingko trees in Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka The Maldives president’s office says it is discussing how to provide a “humane response” to a request from neighbouring Sri Lanka to allow burials for Muslims who die of COVID-19.
Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Hood said Tuesday that President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has received a request from Sri Lanka to look into the possibility of allowing such burials.