SUCCESSFUL POLICY: The center said that 6,000 people have undergone testing at airports and ports, while nearly 150,000 home quarantine notices have been issued
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 06, 2020
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
Foreign students and their supporters hold banners yesterday outside the Ministry of Education in Taipei to call on the government to relax border control measures and allow foreign students to return to finish their studies.
Photo: Tu Chien-jung, Taipei Times
The center would only consider reopening the border if the nation’s disease situation remains stable after domestic restrictions have been lifted, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who also heads the center, said at the center’s daily news briefing in Taipei yesterday.
Taiwan on March 19 banned the entry of all foreign nationals, with the exception of Alien Resident Certificate holders, members of diplomatic missions or representative offices, those honoring a business contract, and people granted special permission by Taiwan’s representative office in their home nation.
While the Ministry of Education had proposed that the government allow the entry of overseas students from nations deemed to be less at risk of COVID-19, a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday did not reach a conclusion. [FULL STORY]
