{"id":15539,"date":"2020-03-08T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T23:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/07\/coronavirus-outbreak-taipei-taiwan-china"},"modified":"2020-03-08T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T23:02:18","slug":"taipei-seems-to-have-the-virus-in-hand-now-i-worry-about-returning-to-the-uk%e2%80%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15539","title":{"rendered":"Taipei seems to have the virus in hand. Now I worry about returning to the UK\u2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Sars outbreak on the island state in 2003, when 150,000 were quarantined, Taiwan vowed to be better prepared next time<\/p>\n<p>As I stepped into a cosy restaurant in Taipei, the waiter signalled for me to stop, then ran at me, gun in hand. He held it near my forehead, then \u2013 click \u2013 my temperature was checked. He look relieved as he ushered me to a corner table. <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s capital (population 2.7\u200amillion) is on high alert. Temperature checks, face masks and hand sanitisers are the new normal as the city, and the island state, unifies in its battle against contagion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/07\/coronavirus-outbreak-taipei-taiwan-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Sars outbreak on the island state in 2003, when 150,000 were quarantined, Taiwan vowed to be better prepared next timeAs I stepped into a cosy restaurant in Taipei, the waiter signalled for me to stop, then ran at me, gun in hand. He held it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,1037,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-sars","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15540,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions\/15540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}