Taiwan is the latest Asian destination to drop Covid entry restrictions
Staff, 2022-10-12 19:31:00,
Taiwan has lifted all its Covid-19 entry restrictions, allowing tourists unfettered access after more than two years of border controls.
Hong Kong and Taiwan, together with mainland China, long required most visitors to complete a mandatory quarantine period throughout the pandemic, even as most countries reopened their borders to tourists.
Visitors are no longer required to quarantine upon entry, or take any PCR tests. Instead, they will need to monitor their health for a week after arriving, and obtain a negative result on a rapid antigen test the day they arrive. If people want to go out during the week-long monitoring period, they need a negative test from either that day or the day before.
There are also no longer any restrictions on certain nationalities being allowed to enter Taiwan.
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Dozens of visitors from Thailand were among the first to arrive under the new rules at Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport, which serves the capital Taipei, on a Tiger Air flight that landed shortly after midnight.
Chiang Ying-ying/AP
Tourists arriving at Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan, Northern Taiwan. Taiwan announced that it will end mandatory Covid-19 quarantines for people arriving from overseas beginning.
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