Taiwan has confirmed that it will end its mandatory Covid-19 quarantine for travellers from Oct 13, in its latest step to reopen to tourists. The date was first floated last week amid a string of other announcements to ease the island’s strict border control measures, including the end of polymerase chain reaction tests for travellers arriving on the island.
On Thursday, the island also resumed visa-free entry for citizens of countries that previously had that status, including Singapore. Despite doing away with quarantine, travellers will still be required to monitor their health and take antigen rapid tests over a sevenday period. They will each be given four antigen rapid test kits at the airport on arrival. The tests are self-administered and travellers can go out as long as they have a negative test result within two days. Travellers do not need to report their temperatures. Vaccination checks are not required, but travellers are required to don masks at all times while in public. Also, buying Covid-19 insurance is not necessary.
If travellers test positive, they should see a doctor and then stay in isolation in either a quarantine facility or at home.
It is about time measures were lifted for inbound tourists,” Associate Professor Huang Chengtsung of the tourism department at Providence University in Taichung told The Straits Times.
This story is from the September 30, 2022 edition of The Straits Times.
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