{"id":32183,"date":"2021-05-17T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/how-did-covid-slip-through-taiwans-gold-standard-defences"},"modified":"2021-05-17T18:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:14:45","slug":"how-did-covid-slip-through-taiwans-gold-standard-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32183","title":{"rendered":"How did Covid slip through Taiwan\u2019s \u2018gold standard\u2019 defences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island state went 253 days without a single local case but now the number of cases is rising sharply<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A worsening coronavirus outbreak in Taiwan has raised urgent questions about how the virus slipped past the island\u2019s \u201cgold standard\u201d defences, and if it can quickly return to a zero-Covid life.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the island state of 24 million people was producing extraordinary numbers: fewer than 1,000 cases, about 90% of them detected in recent arrivals, zero infection leaks from quarantine, a death toll of 12, and 253 days without a single local case.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/17\/how-did-covid-slip-through-taiwans-gold-standard-defences\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island state went 253 days without a single local case but now the number of cases is rising sharplyCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA worsening coronavirus outbreak in Taiwan has raised urgent questions about how the virus s&#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-32183","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\/32183","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=32183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32184,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32183\/revisions\/32184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}