Taiwan sees 1,000 daily local COVID cases by end of month


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[Taiwan sees 1,000 daily local COVID cases by end of month] Taiwan expects daily domestic COVID-19 infections to top 1,000 a day by the end of the month, Health minister Chen Shih-chung said on Tuesday, calling on people not to panic about a wave that is causing few serious cases. Taiwan has been a model for how to control the pandemic. It moved early and effectively with such measures as largely closing its borders and implementing highly efficient contact tracing. But since the beginning of this year the island of 23 million people has recorded some 4,000 domestic infections, driven...