{"id":35897,"date":"2021-08-25T16:43:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/taiwan-zero-covid-cases-outbreak-vaccine-test-trace"},"modified":"2021-08-25T16:43:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T07:43:17","slug":"taiwan-hits-zero-covid-cases-for-first-time-since-outbreak-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35897","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan hits zero Covid cases for first time since outbreak in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acceleration of vaccine rollout and test-and-trace improvements credited for turnaround<\/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>Taiwan has reported zero community cases of Covid-19 for the first time since its biggest outbreak began in May, killing more than 800 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe local confirmed case today is zero, it was not easy,\u201d the head of the Central Epidemic Command Centre, Chen Shih-chung, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/taiwan-zero-covid-cases-outbreak-vaccine-test-trace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acceleration of vaccine rollout and test-and-trace improvements credited for turnaroundCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan has reported zero community cases of Covid-19 for the first time since its biggest outbreak began &#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":[41,1066,346,74,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-taiwan","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/35897","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=35897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35898,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35897\/revisions\/35898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}