All future evacuees to be quarantined before boarding planes from China to return to Taiwan

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/02/06
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer\

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) on Thursday (Feb. 6) announced four rules for flights evacuating Taiwan citizens from China due to the coronavirus outbreak, The Storm Media reported.

Hsu Cheng-wen (徐正文), head of a private group that helped coordinate the first evacuation flight, admitted to media on Wednesday that three of the evacuees were not on the list provided by Taiwan to Chinese authorities for evacuation. This included the man who tested positive on Tuesday in Taiwan's latest case,

The report said the 247 evacuees included some Chinese spouses of Taiwanese citizens, which Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said did not comply with the regulations set by the government.

The report quoted cabinet spokeswoman Kolas Yotaka as saying the premier required that in future four demands must be met for evacuation flights from China. The first demand was the priority was to evacuate the elderly, children, those who are on short-term business trips, or who have been on medication for a long time.    [FULL  STORY]