> That's how we have less cases than Japan, Korea and Hong Kong now.
There could be other reasons for this, no? I mean, specifically in Japan's case, a huge cluster of that is from cruise ships. That seems more like a [bad] luck thing rather than the result of proactive action.
Also, I think we should make the distinction between "cases" and "confirmed cases". I'm in Singapore and one of the reasons given why Singapore has so many confirmed cases (3rd most) is that the Government is relentless about tracking infections.
Maybe that's just a positive spin. Either way, I think there's a lot of reasons to take these early numbers with a grain of salt.
Before the cruise ship, Japan already got domestic transmission case which is a bus driver driving tour groups from WuHan. It is confirmed on 1/28. (Later the Japanese local tour guide on that bus is also confirmed infected) They barred foreign nationals who visited China's Hubei Province on 2/1
Taiwan blocked tour groups from Hubei on 1/24 and ordered to evict existing groups. There are two confirmed cases whom are WuHan tourists entered before 1/24. Fortunately they did not caused domestic transmission.
The case I referred on that evacuation plane is a confirmed case and there is still a chance there might be more cases from that plane since the on-plane protection is reported to be sloppy.
There could be other reasons for this, no? I mean, specifically in Japan's case, a huge cluster of that is from cruise ships. That seems more like a [bad] luck thing rather than the result of proactive action.
Also, I think we should make the distinction between "cases" and "confirmed cases". I'm in Singapore and one of the reasons given why Singapore has so many confirmed cases (3rd most) is that the Government is relentless about tracking infections.
Maybe that's just a positive spin. Either way, I think there's a lot of reasons to take these early numbers with a grain of salt.