Taipei Times
Date: May 12, 2019
By: Sean Lin and Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporters
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday reiterated that travelers from Hong Kong and
Premier Su Tseng-chang in a screen grab taken yesterday raises his hand on a poster warning that African swine fever has spread to Hong Kong and announcing that travelers from Hong Kong and Macau would have all their carry-on and check-in luggage checked.Screen grab from Premier Su Tseng-chang’s Facebook page
Macau, as well as Taiwanese returning home from the two areas, are to have their carry-on and check-in luggage fully checked at customs.
Su made the remarks on Facebook after a case of African swine fever was reported at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse on Friday.
Su said the government has since Jan. 16 been inspecting carry-on luggage of passengers arriving from China, Hong Kong and Macau, and has since purchased X-ray scanners, which are deployed at customs and ports nationwide.
He called on people to be on the lookout so that minced pork rice, a quintessential Taiwanese street food, would be protected.
Separately yesterday, Council of Agriculture Deputy Minister Huang Chin-cheng (黃金城) said that the case in Hong Kong could have been expected, given that the region imports most of its pork from China, and is near China’s Guangdong and Fujian provinces, which reported infection cases last year. [FULL STORY]
