December 22, 2020 published at 9:30 AMReuters People wear face masks as a mandatory precaution for riding on public transportations amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak while boarding on and off a metro in Taipei, Taiwan, April 30, 2020. Reuters TAIPEI -Taiwan on Tuesday (Dec 22) reported its first locally transmitted case of Covid-19 since April 12, a friend of a New Zealand pilot who was confirmed to have been infected earlier this week, and is testing more than 100 contacts of the woman. Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control thanks to early and effective prevention methods and widespread mask wearing, with all new cases for more than the last 250 days being among travellers arriving on the island.