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President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen visits a mask factory After the outbreak of COVID-19, the global demand for face masks increased rapidly.By the end of January 2020, the Taiwanese Government pushed out a series of decisions on masks, included export restrictions, compulsory appropriation and investments, to allow Taiwan to become the second largest mask exporter globally.
Taiwan has won praise for its steps to control the coronavirus, including strict border quarantine controls and the widespread wearing of masks, which have won broad public support. Tests and mask ...
May.24 -- Taiwan is being squeezed by a resurgent coronavirus on one side and on the other, a year-long drought that’s disrupting agriculture, industry and power supplies. Bloomberg’s Samson ...
To kickstart domestic tourism, the face mask on a sand sculpture in Taipei, Taiwan, was removed on June 29 by the country's transportation and health ministers.
South Korea introduced the mass screening and localised quarantines and issued alerts on the movements of infected individuals. Singapore provided financial support for those infected who quarantined themselves and imposed large fines for those who failed to do so. Taiwan increased face mask production and penalised hoarding of medical supplies ...
The Taiwanese government protested WHO's "very high" risk rating for Taiwan in February 2020, at which time Taiwan had a very small number of cases compared to China. [202] Taiwanese officials and some analysts have said that the exclusion of Taiwan from WHO, on the basis of pressure from China, has increased the risk of Taiwan missing disease ...
Peter Tsai (蔡秉燚; born February 6, 1952) is a Taiwanese-American inventor and material scientist who is best known for inventing and patenting improved meltblown filtration manufacturing techniques, used in respirators (like N95 respirators, which is a 1995 NIOSH standard made to address the shortcomings of USBM standards).
Just a single face mask, according to a study in Environmental Advances, can release as many as 173,000 microfibers per day into the seas. And a recent National Geographic report cites a far ...