Commuters, wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease , ride the Taipei Metro subway in New Taipei, Taiwan, on April 22, 2022.TAIPEI — Taiwan will not go into a Shanghai-like lockdown to control a rise in domestic Covid-19 cases as the vast majority of those infected have no symptoms or show only minor symptoms, Premier Su Tseng-chang said on Saturday , pledging to keep opening up.
Backed by a high vaccination rate, the government has been promoting the "new Taiwan model", learning to gradually live with the virus and avoiding shutting down the economy, unlike in Shanghai which is in its third week of a lockdown to control the pandemic. "We will gradually deal with it and won't be like Shanghai and go into lockdown, but we also won't immediately stop wearing face masks and not take anti-pandemic measures," he added.
Su said more vaccines and rapid tests were on their way to help cope with the uptick in infections to "prepare for the next steps in re-opening" and reduce the amount of time those with Covid-19 or their contacts have to spend in quarantine.The government has already cut to 10 days from two weeks the quarantine for all arrivals in Taiwan, and is considering further gradual reductions as it looks to re-open its borders.
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