Focus Taiwan
Date: 03/10/2020
By: Chen Wei-ting and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, March 10 (CNA) Individuals subject to home isolation or home quarantine for 14 days to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus are entitled to monetary compensation for the mandatory movement constraints on them, according to a Cabinet bulletin released Tuesday.

Such persons, as well as any of their family members who take unpaid leave to attend to the isolated or quarantined, will get NT$1,000 (US$33.35) per day in compensation, according to the bulletin, which was in the form of a directive from the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

The compensation measure is retroactive to Jan. 15.

Under the order, which sets forth "Regulations Governing Compensation for Periods of Isolation and Quarantine for Severe Pneumonia with Novel Pathogens," the compensation-entitled caregiver is limited to the family member of the home quarantined without self-care ability in daily life, such as children under the age of 12.    [FULL  STORY]