Coronavirus: Taiwan tightens border controls as it battles to keep out Delta variant

Name: US sends 2.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan
Uploaded: 2021-06-25T08:02:49.000Z
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Description: US sends 2.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan

From Sunday, people arriving from Bangladesh, Britain, Indonesia, Israel and Peru will have to spend 14 days in government-run quarantine facilities

Island is grappling with a cluster of local cases but seven imported Delta infections have been detected

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Published: 4:02pm, 25 Jun 2021Updated: 10:23pm, 25 Jun 2021

Taiwan will tighten border controls to keep out the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, authorities said on Friday, requiring arrivals from five countries, including Britain, to be placed in centralised quarantine facilities.

Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said that starting from Sunday, entrants from Bangladesh, Britain, Indonesia, Israel and Peru would have to spend 14 days in government-run facilities.

People coming from Brazil and India already face such quarantine, while all others must quarantine at home or in hotels for 14 days.

Taiwan’s seven Delta infections were all imported cases detected during quarantine.

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US sends 2.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan

The island is battling a cluster of domestic infections, almost all of them due to the previously globally dominant Alpha variant, though numbers are steadying and the outbreak has been comparatively small.

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