Taiwan has now gained full control of the 2nd outbreak that occurred as a result of flights from America.
Strategy since SARS outbreak in 2003:
Monitor China for news of infectious diseases. On outbreak activate disease command and control network and implement the following rules:
1. Screen all incoming flights. Anyone with symptoms (fever, cough) put in isolated quarantine. As are people sitting adjacent to them.
2. Ban flights from airports in regions/countries with more than 5 cases.
3. Ban travel by passengers that have travelled to the affected regions/countries within the previous 14 days.
4. Retrospectively self isolate all passengers from flights arriving in the previous 7 days from affected regions/countries.
5. Identify their contacts (from various databases and mobile phone tracking data) and self isolate them too.
6. Apply contact tracing to all cases that dont fall into the above categories, self isolating all for 2 weeks.
7. Self isolation is monitored (mobile phone monitoring) and random phone calls.
8. Add virus testing into the equation as soon as it is available.
Here is one good article on the subject:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/orde...e-in-coronavirus-crisis-while-the-who-is-mia/