The Straits Times
Date: Apr 23, 2018
By: Lee Seok Hwai, Assistant Foreign Editor

An outbreak of measles in Japan and Taiwan has put thousands of people in quarantine

File photo showing a syringe containing a vaccine to fight measles.PHOTO: AFP

and forced tourists to put off visits to southern Japan, media reports said.

More than 3,500 people in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung have been quarantined and are being monitored by the island’s health authorities after coming into contact with infected crew of budget carrier Tigerair Taiwan, Taiwanese media reported.

Another 980 are being monitored following the discovery of an infection cluster at a major hospital in Taoyuan, just outside Taipei.    [FULL  STORY]