Taipei Times
Date: Jan 25, 2020
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Tour groups, but not individual travelers, are banned from visiting China as of today, the Tourism
A guard at the entrance to the Taipei City Hospital wears a mask yesterday as Taiwan steps up its efforts to prevent the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus from China.
Photo: CNA
The announcement came as the Central Epidemic Command Center confirmed two more cases of 2019-nCoV, bringing the nation’s total to three.
The center said free antiviral drugs would be available to anyone clinically confirmed to have flu-like symptoms, regardless of nationality, and.
The bureau’s ban follows China banning Chinese tour groups from leaving the nation, Tourism Bureau Director-General Chou Yung-hui (周永暉) said. [FULL STORY]
