IEEE Spectrum March 12, 2020
According to an international team of researchers (USA – Stanford University, UCLA, Rand Corporation, Taiwan) Taiwan owes its success largely to the emergency implementation of big data analytics and new technologies. In late January, as the novel coronavirus began spreading through China, computer scientists modeling the outbreak ranked Taiwan the region with the second highest risk of importation of the virus. The island sits just 130 km off the coast of mainland China and shuttles thousands of passengers to and from the mainland daily. But so far Taiwan reports that it has largely mitigated the spread of the pathogen. Fewer than 50 cases of the coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, had been confirmed on the island as of March 11…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE