Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Gudi, S. K.; Tiwari, K. K.
Introduction
On January 21 2020, Taiwan reported its first imported COVID-19 case returning from Wuhan whose history of disease has previously been described.1 From hard-learned lessons of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 (with 346 confirmed cases, 73 deaths),2 everyone on the island understand that this is a serious matter. Main reasons, of course, being our high population density, geographical location, and our close economic ties with epicenter of the outbreak.
Keywords
Epidemiology