Radio Taiwan International
Date: 26 March, 2020
By: Jake Chen

The interior ministry is calling on people in Taiwan to forgo the usual ceremonies during this year’s Tomb Sweeping Festival and pay their respects to their ancestors at home instead.

The Tomb Sweeping Festival is a time of year when it’s traditional to visit ancestors’ tombs, leave offerings, and tidy up their gravesites. However, this can mean large numbers of people gathering in cemeteries, the kind of gatherings the government is advising against as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.    [FULL  STORY]