# What we can learn from Hong Kong, Singapore, & Taiwan the challenges of fighting this pandemic

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**Post date:** [April 19, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/what-we-can-learn-from-hong-kong-singapore-taiwan-the-challenges-of-fighting-this-pandemic/80695/1 "2020-04-19T04:43:28Z")

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Right now, if you fly to Hong Kong, you’ll have to turn over [your saliva](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3080088/coronavirus-hong-kongs-screening-regime-airport-arrivals). That is, if you’re already a resident. If not, you can’t come in at all.

The saliva, of course, is for a coronavirus test, one of the measures the Hong Kong government has adopted — [including banning non-residents from entry, and giving tracking bracelets tied to an app](https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25332/20200416/coronavirus-hk-airport-screening-system-includes-requiring-arriving-passengers-provide.htm) to those arrivals who are allowed in — to try to control a small wave of new coronavirus cases that arose in recent weeks.

Hong Kong isn’t the only place in Asia that did a good job controlling its initial coronavirus outbreak only to see a resurgence of coronavirus cases. [Singapore](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12324356) and [Taiwan](https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/taiwan-closes-borders-in-preparation-for-possible-second-wave-of-the-coronavirus/) were both seen as examples of how to handle the [coronavirus outbreak](https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19): stanching the growth of infections, while largely keeping their economies open.

## HOW?

> **[What we can learn from the “second wave” of coronavirus cases in Asia](https://www.vox.com/2020/4/17/21213787/coronavirus-asia-waves-hong-kong-singapore-taiwan)**
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> Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan show the challenges of fighting this pandemic.