Taiwan to end Covid quarantine for arrivals, welcome back tourists

Vistors to Taiwan will still need to monitor their health for seven days and take rapid tests but tourists will be allowed to return. - AFP

TAIPEI (Reuters):Taiwan will end its mandatory Covid-19 quarantine for arrivals from Oct 13 and welcome tourists back, the government said on Thursday (Sept 29), completing a major step on its plan to re-open to the outside world.

Taiwan had kept some of its entry and quarantine rules in place as large parts of the rest of Asia relaxed or lifted them completely, although in June it cut the number of days required in isolation for arrivals to three from seven previously.