Focus Taiwan
Date: 05/20/2020
By: Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, May 20 (CNA) Taiwan is planning to reduce the quarantine period for visitors arriving on short-term business trips, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Wednesday, as it reported no new COVID-19 cases in the country for the 13th straight day.

Business travelers on two- or three-day trips, arriving from countries such as New Zealand, which are at extremely low risk for COVID-19, will be required to remain in quarantine for five days instead of two weeks, the CECC said.

At the end of the five-day quarantine, the visitors will be tested for COVID-19 at their own expense and released once they test negative, the CECC said.

Short-term business travelers from countries with relatively high risk of COVID-19 will be quarantined for 10 days, after which the procedure will be the same, it said.    [FULL  STORY]