Taiwan's seven cases of the Delta variant were all imported cases detected during quarantine. - Reuters
TAIPEI (Reuters): Taiwan will tighten border controls to keep out the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, authorities said on Friday (June 25), 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.
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