By mid-April, although there had been sporadic cases of SARS in persons coming back from mainland China, Taiwan continued to maintain a spotless record of "three zeros": zero deaths, zero community transmissions, and zero cases of Taiwanese taking the disease abroad.
直到四月中旬，雖有零星的大陸入境病例出現，然而台灣一直維持「三零」──零死亡、零社區感染、零境外移出──的漂亮記錄，讓民眾陶醉在「台灣是幸運島」的美好錯覺中。