United Daily news.
Several papers have special sections just for COVID situation.
This is the New Taipei City LINE account.
I got the ones for Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan and Taipei City just to keep on the ball.
This is the New Taipei City LINE account.
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You can get the official counts here (turn âShow casesâ on). You can click into the map and see count for each district/town:
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Taiwan companies make all these equipment literally almost everything that is used to perform a PCR testâŚAnd itâs no problem to import from overseas in general.
The problem is and always has been government policy I assume.
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Thank you. Yes, this is nice, but unfortunately does not show the data by district which for Taipei / New Taipei City is important since there are some absolute disaster no-go districts at the epicenter of the outbreak and others which are not doing so bad comparatively. So then I need to look at the LINE accounts of Taipei / New Taipei City and the press for this district view
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It does. You just have to click into Taipei and New Taipei to zoom in to the map that shows the districts. BTW, the numbers are smaller than the list that Icon posted, probably because the CDC staff does not work on weekends.
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Level 4 in Taipei area could shut this thing down .
Itâs obvious some districts there are riddled with it. Anything else wonât cut it I think.
Besides we are already most of the way to level 4!
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Baby steps.
You are a star!! Thank you.
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I might buy some EWT puts to hedge in case things really get bad. (not a crazy bet really⌠not financial advice btw).
I went to the âSevenâ last night for the first time in about a week. I have to say, the new QR code scan/SMS, what would I call it, workflow I suppose, was my first ever pleasurable Taiwan technology experience. It was easy and fast. Presuming Minister Tang was responsible? If so can we give her a few more portfolios.
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It was indeed Minister Tangâs doing! Iâm really happy with it as well. Other countries have similar systems, but I donât think any of them have as smooth and easy of a system as Taiwan does at the moment.
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Yes, she talks about it here.
Edit: I think she came up with the SMS process after the app was already developed by another office.
Got to agree with that. I was pleasantly surprised too. Maybe she can deal with the banks, vaccination rollout, the entirety of the Taiwanese internet, what else?
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I think what is great about it as a solution, is that it recognises that sometimes you donât need to write software. Sometimes you already have the tools you need at your disposal.
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I like to think sheâs on it, but maybe a bit pre-occupied with the current outbreak situation.
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Look at Osaka now! I can see a lot of similarities with what is happening in Taipei.
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Youâve got to be shitting me!
They didnât require a copy of their ID card or at least their health card? That should be SOP to take either or both and swipe them into a computer system at the time of testing.
Instead they relied on self-filled out paper forms? How fucking third world can we get?
WTF?!
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Thank you.