Chuang, the head of the communicable disease branch of the center, urged people to avoid gatherings and not to assume that they will be protected just by wearing face masks. The government had asked employees to work from home recently, while courts have been generally closed down to reduce social contacts and help prevent a wide outbreak of the coronavirus. Chuang said it’s too early to say when the epidemic will die down. But we’re trying every effort to contain and delay the spread of the infection in the community,” she said. She said that the spread of the virus on the mainland seems to have slowed down because people are doing well on cutting down their social contacts to contain the epidemic.

Source: The Standard February 27, 2020 10:52 UTC