After experience with the SARS epidemic, Taiwan government began regularly promoting the concept of infection control as well as implementing policies to prevent future epidemics that emphasized preventive health education, hand hygiene and cough etiquette. Infection control was made both a formal hospital accreditation item and an item targeted in yearly onsite inspections. As part of their continuing education, all healthcare professionals must participate in training courses on infection prevention and control. A further key factor that has likely contributed to Taiwan’s low number of confirmed cases is the widespread public acceptance and adherence to infection control rules that have been enacted and promoted after 2003. Moreover, Taiwan government has actively distributed three million N95 masks and isolation gowns from its 35‐day reserve stock. This distribution began in December 2019, following the finding by a nationally convened public health expert panel that COVID‐19 posed a significant risk of human‐to‐human transmission. As of 10 June 2020, no healthcare workers in Taiwan have lost their lives to COVID‐19, and only four nurses have been infected with mild symptoms and have since been cured and discharged.