Taiwan renews borders without quarantine with weekly limit of 150 thousand visits

Taiwan reopens its borders this Thursday, closed since 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19and will allow visitors to enter without imposing a mandatory quarantine.

The arrival of people from abroad will be limited to 150,000 per week at the moment and travelers will have to monitor their health status during the first week, reported the official Taiwanese agency CNA.

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Taoyuan International Airport, the main gateway to the island, confirmed that it is ready to start receiving foreign passengers, while many Taiwanese residing in China -where the borders remain armored with few exceptions- they complained about the difficulties in finding plane tickets to the island due to the few flights that operate at the moment.

For this first opening day, the aerodrome foresees a total of 270 flights, which will bring more than 12,300 travelers to the island -to which some 5,600 will be added on a stopover- and will take 6,300 to other destinations.

Among the protocols eliminated as of this Thursday at the main Taiwanese airport are the control of health certificates to enter the island and the prohibition of access to shops and restaurants that was in force until now for people arriving from other countries.

Restrictions on transportation to or from the aerodrome are also no longer in force.

Airport sources quoted by CNA said companies operating in Taoyuan have regained 50 to 60 percent of their business volume with the phasing out of entry restrictions.

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Before the start of the health crisis, the Taiwanese airport registered a record 48.6 million passengers in 2019, a figure that plummeted to 7.4 million the following year and bottomed out in 2021 with 900,000, according to statistics from the island’s Civil Aeronautics Administration.

Meanwhile, in the first eight months of this year, Taoyuan received or dismissed 1.57 million travelers.

Source: EFE

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