Taiwan is set for reopening, with visa-free entry reinstated for the US, Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia in mid-September. Other countries such as Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines were added in late September. Likewise, quarantines are to be phased out today, October 13th. Instead of three-day quarantines, followed by a four-day self-health management period, there will be a shift towards seven days of self-health management...
Recent efforts by the pan-Blue camp to attack the DPP have attempted to frame the Tsai administration as lacking transparency and incompetent. Notably, this may dovetail with Chinese disinformation efforts, as amplified by domestic pan-Blue outlets...
It did not exactly come as a surprise when Taipei deputy mayor Vivian Huang, also known as Huang Shan-shan, tendered her resignation late last month in preparation for a mayoral run...
The question of who the DPP and KMT intend to field as their mayoral candidates in Taipei and Taoyuan has come under scrutiny in recent days, as the primary season comes to a close before nine-in-one elections later this year...
Even as daily reported domestic cases have not yet broken 50,000, Taiwan maintains efforts to transition away from COVID-zero. The past three days have seen over 40,000 cases, with 40,263 domestic cases reported today, 44,294 domestic cases reported yesterday, and 46,377 domestic cases reported the day prior...
With Taiwan currently transitioning toward co-existence with COVID-19, Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has struck an unusual note by emphasizing that with a deterioration of the situation, Taipei would shift to a “soft lockdown"...
11,353 domestic COVID-19 cases were reported by the CECC today. This is the first day in the duration of the pandemic to date that Taiwan reported more than 10,000 domestic cases and yesterday the CECC stated that it anticipated cases to break 10,000 today...
The Central Epidemic Command Center which manages Taiwan’s COVID-19 response announced several major policy shifts this afternoon. First, starting from today, the QR code registration system used for contact tracing will no longer be used. This is because the number of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan is too high for contact tracing, as a result of which contact tracing will no longer be carried out...
5,108 confirmed cases, 113 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center at its daily COVID-19 press conference today. 106 of the imported cases were found on arrival, while seven were found while in quarantine...