Focus Taiwan
Date: 06/05/2020
By: Chen Yi-hsuan and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, June 5 (CNA) People using Taipei mass rapid transit (Taipei metro) and public bus services will no longer be required to wear face masks all the time when they are at stations, in metro cars or buses from June 7, the city's deputy mayor announced Friday.

The mask requirement on public transport in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, will be eased on the same day the central government is scheduled to relax COVID-19 control measures on trains and domestic flights, with no new domestically transmitted coronavirus cases reported for nearly two months, Huang Shan-shan (黃珊珊) said.

"As long as social distance protocols are followed," passengers using the Taipei metro and public buses in the city can remove their masks while at stations, in metro cars or buses if there is enough distance between passengers, but will still have to wear masks when entering a station or boarding a bus, Huang noted.

Metro and bus drivers, as well as personnel working at transport stations, will still be required to have their temperature checked and wear masks when on duty, according to the Taipei City Public Transportation Office.    [FULL  STORY]