Helen Davidson, our correspondent in Taipei, has a little more on the situation developing in Taiwan:
The whole of Taiwan will move into level three of its four-tier alert system, as the virus spreads to more than half the island’s counties, infecting more than 1,300 people and killing two.
The central epidemic command centre (CECC) reported 267 new local cases on Wednesday, following 240 on Tuesday, and 333 on Monday.
The outbreak remains concentrated in the cities of Taipei and New Taipei, which went into level three on the weekend, but cases are now reported in eight other cities or counties, including 28 in Changhua, 16 in Taoyuan, and eight in the southern city of Kaohsiung. There were 49 cases without an identified source, while 80 are linked to places in Wanhua, the current epicentre of the northern outbreak.
The level three alert does not establish lockdown measures. It mandates mask wearing outside of the home and limits gatherings to five indoors and 10…