{"id":32113,"date":"2021-05-15T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T06:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/taiwan-records-180-new-cases-in-islands-worst-covid-outbreak-of-pandemic"},"modified":"2021-05-15T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T06:07:33","slug":"taiwan-records-180-new-cases-in-islands-worst-covid-outbreak-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32113","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan records 180 new cases in island\u2019s worst Covid outbreak of pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New restrictions, including a mandate on mask-wearing and limits on gatherings in the capital, Taipei, will stay in place for two weeks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwan has reported 180 new cases of Covid-19 as it rushes to contain the worst outbreak the island has seen since the pandemic began. Authorities have raised the alert level in Taipei and the neighbouring county of New Taipei, limiting family gatherings, and ordering numerous industries to close.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/how-taiwan-triumphed-over-covid-as-uk-faltered\">one of the world\u2019s pandemic success stories<\/a>, and its case numbers remain low relative to outbreaks around the world. But Saturday\u2019s cases, which bring its total number so far to about 1,470 among a population of 24 million, mark the highest rates of community transmission since the pandemic began. Until now almost all of Taiwan\u2019s cases were detected in new arrivals held in hotel quarantine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/15\/taiwan-records-180-new-cases-in-islands-worst-covid-outbreak-of-pandemic\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New restrictions, including a mandate on mask-wearing and limits on gatherings in the capital, Taipei, will stay in place for two weeksSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan has reported 180 new cases of Covid-19 as it rushes to contain the worst outbr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,1066,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","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\/32113","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32114,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32113\/revisions\/32114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}