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Keeping distance: Reporting in the time of COVID-19

  • 06 April, 2020
  • Andrew Ryan
Keeping distance: Reporting in the time of COVID-19
The COA spread out seating at a Monday press conference to help curb the spread of coronavirus. (CNA)

Reporters jostling to report on late-breaking news is a familiar sight in Taiwan. But in the time of coronavirus, this could be a thing of the past. 

Taiwan's government is recommending that people maintain a 1.5 meter distance indoors and one meter outside. That means press conferences can no longer be held the way they were in the past: in tight quarters. 

The new social distancing rules were visible at a Council of Agriculture press conference on Monday. The event was held in an open space, and the reporters' chairs were spread out to keep them at a safe distance from one another. 

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