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COVID-19 contact tracing in Taiwan

Contact information registration is a nationwide policy in Taiwan imposed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) starting from May 2021 to April 2022. Contact Information registration is imposed as a part of the Taiwanese government's effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact information registration required citizens to scan a QR-code before entering a public space which would redirect the user to the user’s chosen SMS application and with a prewritten text message to the number “1922”. The purpose of the text message is to facilitate contact tracing since the message is kept by the service provider for 28 days. According to the CDC, the total amount of text messages sent for the duration of the policy exceeded 4.77 billion.

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• ▸Gay men

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