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[Taiwan Is Abandoning Its Zero-COVID Strategy in Favour of a ‘New Model’ of Coronavirus Containment] Taipei is easing COVID-19 curbs even as its daily cases are rising, in a strategy radically different from Beijing’s zero-tolerance policy that has shut down many Chinese cities and sent the economy into a tailspin. On May 5, Taiwan recorded more than 30,000 new COVID-19 infections crossing that daily threshold for the first time since the pandemic began. The current wave of infections looks to get worse for the island of 23 million, which has so far registered nearly 232,400 cases some 215,000 since January...
