Singapore and Taiwan got it right
They were prepared for something like this and acted quickly.
On Dec. 31, Taiwanese officials learned that China had alerted the World Health Organization of a “pneumonia of unknown cause.” Though they had very little information, Taiwanese officials quickly sent health workers to the country’s airports to assess the passengers of all direct flights from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus, for symptoms before they could exit the plane. Since then, Taiwan has continued to be vigilant. Despite being just 81 miles off the coast of China, which has more than 80,000 documented cases of COVID-19, Taiwan has managed to contain the outbreak. While South Korea and Japan, its neighbors to the north, have 7,755 and 1,277 known cases of COVID-19, respectively, Taiwan has experienced just 48 cases and one virus-related death.
https://slate.com/technology/2020/03/countries-contain-coronavirus-spread.html
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