Taiwan carefully opens, but only to this country

Taiwan, the island nation of 24 million, has only had 1,006 Covid-19 cases and 10 deaths, thanks to early, well-enforced measures.

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While most of the world has had to adjust to physical distancing and mask-wearing for the last year, Taiwan has been a rare exception, thanks to its quick and efficient response to the Covid-19 pandemic early last year. Now, the island nation is preparing to open its carefully monitored borders to tourists for the first time in a travel bubble with the archipelago nation of Palau, Taiwan officials announced recently.