{"id":14028,"date":"2020-04-15T14:28:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=14028"},"modified":"2020-04-15T14:28:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:28:19","slug":"no-new-covid-19-case-in-taiwan-as-strategy-bears-fruit-majority-of-393-cases-are-imported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/14028","title":{"rendered":"No new COVID-19 case in Taiwan as strategy bears fruit, majority of 393 cases are imported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">No new coronavirus case was reported in Taiwan over the past 24 hours, the first such instance in over a month, authorities said on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">The island country, which China claims as a breakaway province, has nearly 400 COVID-19 cases so far, with six deaths and 124 recoveries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">Health Minister Chen Shih-chung, who also heads the Taiwan\u2019s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), said this was the first time in 36 days that no new case was reported on Taiwanese territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">According to Anadolu News agency, daily Taiwan news reported 338 of 393 coronavirus patients were people who had returned from abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">Taiwan, which has a population of over 23 million, recorded the lowest number of cases per million people anywhere in the world over the past 50 days, according to the Oxford University-based research group Our World in Data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in; background: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI','sans-serif'; color: #212529;\">The low case count has been ensured without a complete lockdown. 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