lucy burke bizarre a french journalist moved to the capital taipei a few months ago with the help of her time in these roommates she's learning a lot about the country and its customs and care on the social media fare is that if you advice ok you tell me more about it yes so this shiva dog is a very lovely character that's been put up by the ministry of health and welfare to let the public know what we should do so this is on social media and it tells us for example how we must wash our hands as often as possible. this shiba inu called son joey is the spokes dog for the taiwanese ministry of health the government is using a range of digital mascots to tell the public how to manage. good hygiene the campaign began in early december no other country reacted as swiftly at that point beijing was still trying hard to play down the situation. it was also in december that taiwan began imposing quarantine on people arriving from the epicenter of the epidemic a few weeks later it closed its borders completely to all visitors from china at the same time the country started mass producing prote