April 30, 2021
Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control because of early and effective prevention.
Reuters
TAIPEI - Taiwan began moving more than 400 people to a centralised quarantine facility on Thursday (April 29) from an airport hotel after a rare domestic outbreak of Covid-19, and will sterilise the entire hotel building.
Taiwan has kept the pandemic well under control because of early and effective prevention, including largely closing its borders.
Most cases have been imported from abroad, though the island has reported sporadic domestic infections in recent months.
Since last week, it has reported Covid-19 infections in nine freighter pilots from Taiwan's largest carrier, China Airlines, some of whom had been staying at the Novotel Taipei Taoyuan International Airport hotel, which is now being evacuated.