A Kiwi in Taiwan: My new home’s Covid-19 success is a model for the world

OPINION: Iࢀ™m a Kiwi living with my Taiwanese-Kiwi husband in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The coronavirus response here has been incredibly impressive. This is an island nation of 23.8 million people just a few hundred kilometres from China, and a million Taiwanese were working across the strait, mostly in densely populated cities like Shanghai and Beijing with hundreds of flights back and forth. However, there is a pretty heavy distrust of China’s regime here, as well as experience with SARS. As soon as there was any mention of a virus back in December, they started doing health checks on…