The president of Taiwan outlined how the state contained the coronavirus spread with less than 400 confirmed cases

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Lauren Frias
,Business Insider•April 16, 2020

The president of Taiwan penned an op-ed for Time magazine explaining how the state managed its coronavirus outbreak with less than 400 cases.

Despite its proximity to the epicenter of the pandemic in Wuhan, China, Taiwan has only reported about 395 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, the coronavirus is ravaging other countries, with more than 2.1 million cases reported globally.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen wrote the state learned from the "painful lessons" of the SARS outbreak in 2003, which left Taiwan "scarred with the loss of dozens of lives."

"This success is no coincidence," Tsai wrote. "A combination of efforts by medical professionals, government, private sector and society at large have armored our country's defenses."

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Tsai said Taiwan was even prepared in the instance of panic-buying by monitoring market spikes for essential supplies "at an early stage," and the government took over production and rationing of masks to ensure the company would be adequately stocked.

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