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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-244/
- Published: 2020-10-22T17:30:44.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-23T20:40:29.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

#### What NZ can learn from Taiwan about pandemic preparedness

New Zealand’s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic won international acclaim after measures such as border closures, widespread testing and initiating a historic nationwide lockdown helped eliminate the deadly virus from within our midst.

But it’s the proactive stance adopted by [another island nation some 9000 kilometres away](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/121113908/coronavirus-could-an-alliance-with-taiwan-help-nz-survive-the-coronavirus-cataclysm?ref=goodoil.news) that has been singled out as the “**most effective and least disruptive of any country”** in the world.

[Taiwan’s pandemic response](https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/kiwi-traveller/122169330/a-kiwi-in-taiwan-my-new-homes-covid19-success-is-a-model-for-the-world?ref=goodoil.news) is lauded in a study involving [Otago University researchers](https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/pubhealthexpert/2020/08/26/nzs-covid-19-response-compared-to-selected-other-jurisdictions-australia-taiwan-and-the-united-states/?ref=goodoil.news) in Wellington published in *The Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific* medical journal on Wednesday night.

[Read the full article here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/123144103/what-nz-can-learn-from-taiwan-about-pandemic-preparedness?ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*