Name: How Taiwan keeps kids safe at school amid COVID-19 (Marketplace)
Uploaded: 2020-04-22T04:45:48.000Z
Duration: 4 min 51 s
Description: 在新型冠狀病毒肺炎疫情蔓延期間，台灣的學童仍正常就學，父母正常工作。來看台灣如何在對抗疫情的期間仍維持學校正常運作吧！Learn the English Usage: taiwan,david,peggy,canada,robin,washing,government,minister,covid,excerpt,sanitizers,approach,lunch...

[David] School's out but it's nowhere near summer yet.

To-infinitive

And it's starting to look like things may stay that way for a

In Taiwan, we're about to spend a day at school with Peggy and

her mom Lee-li to find out if what's happening there would

[David] Here the government extended the school break and

Now, school's back in, and Peggy's school is taking

Hands and shoes sanitized on the way inside.

Lee-li is also a teacher at Peggy's school.

Even an excerpt of Matt Damon from the movie "Contagion".

Not all the kids remember to wear their masks.

I'm from Minnesota in the USA and I'm here at Dajia as a

[Robin] The washing hands seems to be really crucial,

and I love how this school has announcements.

the students usually don't enter the classroom until a minute in

to class because they are all busy washing their

[David] An added measure at Peggy's school?

This girl's name is Mabel but her official title?

[Robin] I love how the school sets up the yellow divider

boards to keep students a little bit separated from each other's

[David] The government provided thermometers,

disinfectants, and face masks to all schools.

Taiwan's Minister of Foreign Affairs is Joseph Wu.

What are the measures that you found worked well for Taiwan?

Taiwan's case may not be applicable to all other

countries, especially for those countries that are hit very

The reason why Taiwan is more successful than other countries

[David] Back on December 31, Taiwan began to assess people on

flights from Wuhan for symptoms and soon after,

increased production on supplies like masks and sanitizers.

Taiwan also tracked people with a risk of infection through

cell phones to make sure they stayed home.

I feel so much safer here, especially knowing that here,

the government actually knows where all of the cases are.

[David] That kind of tracking might not be possible in Canada.

But our government wants people to stay home too,

and just ordered mandatory quarantine for all travellers,

with fines up to 750,000, even jail time.

I'm Skyping with Toronto epidemiologist Dr. Isaac Bogoch.

[David] Does he think Canada should have adopted

[David] But he does say there's no excuse for not having enough

[David] Experts say Canada's approach of physical distancing

What would be the most important thing you would tell

I would say that... try to educate the public.

Hand washing or personal hygiene is very important for

[David] But even in a place as prepared as Taiwan,

[David] What do you hope will happen in the future?

[David] One thing we all have in common is hope to beat

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How Taiwan keeps kids safe at school amid COVID-19 (Marketplace)

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