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Eugene

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Sat Oct 31, 2020, 11:13 AM Oct 2020

Huge crowd joins LGBT march in Taiwan, where COVID is at bay [View all]

Source: Associated Press

Huge crowd joins LGBT march in Taiwan, where COVID is at bay

October 31, 2020

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A huge and festive crowd marched in Taiwan’s capital on Saturday in an annual LGBT Pride event.

Turnout was down from last year, but organizers said it still topped 100,000 on a mostly sunny day in Taipei. Many participants did not wear protective masks, but others did, some in rainbow colors.

While many Pride events elsewhere moved online this year because of COVID-19, Taiwan has largely kept the pandemic at bay. The self-governing island of 24 million people has recorded 555 cases of the coronavirus and has not had a locally spread case in more than 200 days.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/travel-virus-outbreak-taiwan-taipei-2b0f22ce6fef46993313006640cede37
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