TAIPEI -- Taiwan will require all inbound passengers to submit a negative COVID-19 test result before boarding a plane to the island, the island's epidemic monitoring agency said on Wednesday.
Medical workers are busy at the screening station for possible COVID-19 cases at a hospital in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, March 30, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)
Passengers set to visit Taiwan or transit through here, regardless of their identities or reasons for visiting, must present a negative-result certificate of a nucleic acid test taken within three days of boarding at the time of checking in, the agency said in a statement.
The move is one of the new COVID-19 control measures that will be in place from Dec 1 and last until Feb 28 next year.
Other measures include the requirement of mask-wearing at eight types of public venues such as medical institutions, public transport facilities, and schools.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Taiwan has risen to 607, including two newly reported cases on Wednesday who arrived from Indonesia and the United States, respectively.
