Focus Taiwan
Date: 04/20/2020
By: Shen Peng-ta and Joseph Yeh

Taipei, April 20 (CNA) A total of 231 Taiwan nationals, originally stranded in China's Hubei province due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, returned to Taiwan late Monday on a special flight and were immediately placed in quarantine.

The evacuees, 193 adults and 38 children, arrived at Taoyuan International Airport at 9:20 p.m. on a government-contracted China Airlines (CAL) flight that departed Shanghai's Pudong International Airport around 8 p.m., according to Taiwan's Border Affairs Corps.

Upon arrival in Taiwan, the 231 received a health check at a provisional facility at the airport and were then transported directly to a designated quarantine site, where they will remain for 14 days. It was the first of two special flights contracted by the Taipei-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) scheduled for this week to bring home Taiwan nationals who were in Hubei province until the lockdown was lifted at the end of March.

The second special flight is scheduled to depart Tuesday night and bring back around 230 Taiwanese.
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