for the ok. 73 people died during the 2003 czars epidemic in the aftermath taiwan established the centers for disease control to combat the threat of communicable diseases 124 safety protocols were drawn up and they've gradually been implemented starting in january. one of those measures is taking a temperature reading of everyone entering a public building making it possible to keep schools and universities open in taiwan a large measure goes into effect today a verification code for all students. at the entrance to the university all students must register and report their temperature reading. so couldn't you just write down any member to get in you want to get out of the taiwanese wouldn't lie we know how important this is. one success in the fight against covert 19 is down to the willingness of each individual to support the prevention measures laid out by the government cares and i saw 6 and i guess nicole how she thinks the situation here compares to that in china but she didn't want to talk about it maybe a while to thailand success is that here they communicate openly whereas in china they withhold i

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lucy is paying a visit to the taiwan centers for disease control. every day the center informs the public of new cases of infection. they're told the patients age and gender as well as information on their whereabouts. all health care professionals share new data as quickly as possible as part of the strategy to keep the virus at bay. i was a pretty strong network of the laboratory test because when you can use in libro torrie examination to come for the cases now we can test. people every day so that's pretty large enough. before how one so we can point to the cases are here. those who test positive are immediately quarantined and their relatives informed in addition those infected or even suspected of carrying the virus are electronically tracked the practice is widely accepted in eastern asia. this is a visitor to french nationals placed under quarantine by the taiwanese authorities the previous week one of the roommates tested positive for the corona virus since then no one is allowed to leave the apartment under any circumstances although food

taiwan's center for disease control tries to make 14-day quarantines easy. >> she asked me whether or i lived at this address. i said, sure, that is my address. and i said, when are you going to be here? she said, i'm going to be there in five nutes. i'm like, oh, okay. and no ( bleep ), they showed up in four minutes. ( laughs ) they were like, outse. so she just gave me a packet of masks, and there were 14 masks in the packet exactly. >> schifrin: taiwan was able to take all of these steps, because it learned lessons the hard way. >> ( translated ): the sars outbreak is a wake up call for taiwan. outbreak.arn a lot from the sars >> schifrin: dr. steve kuo is the former head of taiwan's c.d.c., and led the sars task force in 2003, when the sars epidemic made hundreds of taiwanese sick and killed more in the world.third-highest tally the very next year, authorities prepared for the next crisis. that preparation allowed taiwan's c.d.c. to detect the covid-19 threat before the chinese government announced it. >> we pick up the signal that there is some strange outbreak the wuhan areas,