Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan
Journal
Global Perspectives of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health, Education, and Role of Media
Start Page
497-511
ISBN
9789819911059
9789819911066
Date Issued
2023
Author(s)
Abstract
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world witnessed a large number of infections and deaths. Due to its proximity to China, it was initially feared that Taiwan would become the country worst affected by the pandemic. However, COVID-19 has been widely controlled in the region; a few local outbreaks occurred with limited cases since the pandemic began. Taiwan leveraged its experience in containing the SARS outbreak in 2003 to respond to the COVID-19 crisis with proactive measures, early deployment, prudent actions, and transparency. Most polit-ical debate in Taiwan has centered around vaccines. However, from challenges like vaccine availability to increasing the willingness to take vaccines by the popula-tion, the Taiwan government has succeeded well. Taiwan’s National Health Insur-ance system is a vital component of its strategy to improve the efficiency of health-care delivery throughout the country. And the database integrated with the Centers of Disease Control provides real-time alerts to healthcare providers about patients whenever they are identified. In response to delta variant spread after a commu-nity outbreak, health monitoring measures were tightened, leading the country to successfully control the spread of the infection. Other countries can learn lessons from Taiwan’s response to COVID-19. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023, corrected publication 2023. This book is an open access publication.
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Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Type
book part