Lessons learned from Taiwan's response to the COVID-19 pandemic: successes, challenges, and implications for future pandemics.

ABSTRACT: This study aims to provide an investigation of the containment and mitigation strategies encompassing the entirety of the pandemic in Taiwan. This descriptive, observational study used COVID-19 data from Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, and analysed news releases from the Taiwanese health authority. Statistics provided evidence of outbreak severity through infection and mortality rates, while qualitative results from the document review offered insights on the actions taken by the government chronologically from 2 February 2020 to 31 December 2022. All three countries experienced significant infection peaks in 2022. Taiwan had two distinct peaks, one in late May and another in October. South Korea had a single, high peak in late March, while Japan experienced multiple smaller waves, the big

SUBMITTER: Hsieh VC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11832153 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature