Cities have already held lockdown drills to prepare. FMTNews Covid19
People wear face masks as a precaution against virus shop at a market in Taipei on April 14.
Although life in Taiwan has largely continued as normal while the pandemic has swept across the world, the prospect of parts of the island shutting down has jumped up the political agenda. The mayor of the southern city of Tainan, Huang Wei-che, said this week he would also consider a lockdown if the navy cluster spread into the community, and may cancel next week’s Labour Day long weekend to ensure large numbers of people don’t gather, creating a risk of infection.
Although Taiwan has reported a handful of cases where the source of infection is unclear, it has no widespread community transmission, and most cases are termed “imported”, having been brought to the island from people infected overseas.
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