Focus Taiwan
Date: 05/16/2020
By Wu Jui-chi, Kuay Chau-churh and Frances Huang

Taipei, May 16 (CNA) Thirty-six Taiwanese nationals stranded in the Maldives by the COVID-19 pandemic returned home on Saturday evening on a regularly scheduled China Airlines (CAL) flight from Kuala Lumpur after reaching Malaysia on a charter flight from Male.

The CI722 flight, which had a total of 200 passengers on board, departed from Kuala Lumpur at around 2:45 p.m. and arrived at Taoyuan International Airport at 7:12 p.m.

After the flight touched down at the Taoyuan Airport, the 36 people returning from the Maldives handed in health declarations before being placed in quarantine for 14 days.

Four of them reported having respiratory problems in the past 14 days and had mucus samples taken to test for COVID-19 before being sent to a designated quarantine facility with the others.    [FLL  STORY]