Asian Countries Handle New COVID-19 Cases without Lockdowns

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Asian countries faced with late-year spikes in COVID-19 are capping the outbreaks and keeping economies on track by leveraging earlier experience, namely quick control measures and public compliance, sources in the affected spots say. Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam have reported increases since mid-November as weather cools, citizens fly home from more heavily infected countries in the West, or both. Numbers had fallen in all six by mid-year after outbreaks in the first half. Health officials are now stepping up controls without shuttering businesses in most cases or ordering people to stay home….