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Taiwan has kept Covid infection rates very low partly by imposing strict travel restrictions
In Taiwan, finding someone who will talk about their Covid experience is harder than you might think.
The island has maintained some of the lowest case rates in the world throughout the pandemic - lasting more than 200 days in 2020 without a single case.
During its worst outbreak in May 2021, its daily case load amounted to several hundred local cases per day.
Since the Omicron variant hit Taiwan in early January, local case numbers have remained relatively low, in single figures or low double digits each day.
Given these numbers there is some stigma attached to catching the virus. The BBC spoke to one Taiwanese man who caught Covid-19 at the end of January, but he would not reveal his name, or many details, for fear of negative reactions or disapproval from other people.
He tells us after testing positive from a home test and then again at the hospital, he was sent to an isolation ward. The police then investigated his movements for 14 days prior to testing positive - based on self-reported information and his past QR scans at restaurants, and other venues.
That sophisticated tracing system emerged from a relatively low-tech and crowd sourced development process.
G0v, pronounced 'gov zero': a largely anonymous collective of tech workers - designers, programmers, activists - has been key in originating ideas.
The collective is best known for bi-monthly hackathons and...
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