Coronavirus: Taiwan restricts Hong Kong and Macau travellers amid outbreak crisis
- Starting on Friday, people from Hong Kong and Macau will need to be under home or hotel quarantine for 14 days after landing on the island
- The travel alert for Hong Kong and Macau has been raised to Level 2, according to Taiwan’s Centres for Disease Control
Starting on Friday, people from Hong Kong and Macau will need to be under home or hotel quarantine for 14 days after they land on the self-governed island, CDC said in a late-night statement on Wednesday.
“Several community-transmitted cases with unknown origin have occurred in Hong Kong, indicating the possibility of an invisible chain of infection,” it said. “On the other hand, a worker in the gambling industry of Macau has been diagnosed with coronavirus infection, indicating a second wave of infection in Macau,” CDC said.
It said that owing to the close social and commercial exchanges between Hong Kong, Macau and China, the island had decided to raise the travel alert level for Hong Kong and Macau to Level 2.
CDC also urged locals to be cautious and reinforce prevention measures if they planned to visit Hong Kong and Macau, where 21 and 10 confirmed cases, respectively, had been reported.