Virus Outbreak: Crowd control urged at night marketsCONTAGION RISK: The government should install sensors at tourist hotspots and at the entrances of night markets to monitor the number of visitors, an academic saidBy Hsiao Yu-Hsin and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writerCrowd control measures should be implemented at night markets and other crowded areas to prevent cluster infections of COVID-19, an academic said yesterday. People crowd the Luodong Night Market in Yilan County on Saturday. The government should strive to protect the public’s well-being regardless of whether some people would try to circumvent its control measures, Liu said. Tatung Institute of Technology’s Department of Travel and Leisure Management professor Kao Ming-tu (高洺塗) said that announcing crowd control measures and traffic regulations before the holidays, rather than in the middle of a long break, would reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread ing. Should the pandemic continue, the government would hopefully learn from this experience and implement more thorough crowd control measures for the next holiday, Kao added.

Source: Taipei Times April 05, 2020 15:56 UTC