COVID-19: What caused COVID-19 outbreak? While Taiwan has seen fewer than 800 COVID-19 deaths in total, 500 of them occurred last month alone, amid its biggest virus wave to date. As Taiwan’s outbreak finally abates and restrictions are slowly lifted, with curbs on larger social gatherings and tourist sites easing this week, attention is turning to what went wrong. However, Taiwan appears not to have done enough to ramp up testing capabilities, medical system readiness or vaccine supply. “Taiwan, like many other countries, couldn’t quickly adjust medical capacity when the outbreak happened, which led to a high fatality rate in Taiwan and globally,” Chuang said.

Source: Taipei Times July 27, 2021 15:56 UTC