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Taiwan is standing in the midst of the global novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis
The law serves as a framework for government actions during public health emergencies, including inter alia setting up a disease control network by dividing the country into regions[3]; establishing a centralised platform to command and coordinate agencies’ actions, share information and respond to inquiries[4]; integrating personnel, facilities and resources in preparation for outbreaks[5]; issuing voluntary and mandatory isolation orders[6]; and implementing border restrictions.[7]
In January of this year, when China decided to lock down Wuhan due to COVID-19, Taiwan took an exceptionally precautionary approach based on three major factors[9]: Taiwan’s decades-long exclusion from the international health community without World Health Organization (WHO) membership/observership and access to other arms of the United Nations (UN)[10]; traumatic experiences during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, where regulatory failure led to a wave of reforms[11]; and the island’s geographical proximity to and geopolitical suspicion of China
Summary
At the time of this writing, in Taiwan, 267 people (227 imported and 40 indigenous cases) are infected with this severe acute respiratory syndrome and 2 people have died.[1] The entire country is bracing for the public health challenges posed by the outbreak that respects no boundaries, and for the social, economic and political ramifications. In January of this year, when China decided to lock down Wuhan due to COVID-19, Taiwan took an exceptionally precautionary approach based on three major factors[9]: Taiwan’s decades-long exclusion from the international health community without World Health Organization (WHO) membership/observership and access to other arms of the United Nations (UN)[10]; traumatic experiences during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, where regulatory failure led to a wave of reforms[11]; and the island’s geographical proximity to and geopolitical suspicion of China. This paper aims to offer an anatomy of Taiwan’s regulatory actions taken in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, assess their implications for risk regulation and governance in a global context and urge a reimagining of the administrative state in the – hopefully – post-COVID-19 world
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