Taiwan ends Covid-19 regulations and reopens to visitors

International tourists aiming to visit the Asian island will no longer need quarantine or PCR tests upon entry, Taiwanese officials have announced. Nevertheless, under the new set of rules, all visitors here are asked to monitor their health for a week and take rapid antigen tests, in order to limit the spreading of the Covid-19 infection and promote responsible tourism.

According to Chang Shi-chung, Tourism Bureau’s Director General, the island’s long-expected reopening is an opportunity to “bring back to life and rebuild cross-border tourism”.

The East Asian self-governing island has reported 6.5 million Omicron infections since the beginning of the year, yet 99.5 per cent of the registered cases have been mild or had no symptoms at all.

Taiwan is the last in the area to end Covid-19 regulations, except for mainland China, which still has a very strict tourism-related policy because of the pandemic.

 

Source: aljazeera.com