Coronavirus: Taiwan to get baseball fans back in stadiums as it starts to ease restrictions
- Taiwanese stranded in mainland Chinese province of Hubei will also be allowed to make their way back to the island
- There have been no cases of local transmission reported for nearly a month, and it has had just 440 infections and six deaths
The island – home to 23 million people – had reported just 440 cases and six deaths from Covid-19 as of Thursday, with no local transmission for close to a month.
Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said that with very few new cases among people returning to the island from elsewhere, the authorities would allow Taiwanese stranded in the mainland Chinese province of Hubei to make their way back to Taiwan.
“Beginning on Friday, these people who have been stuck in Hubei because of [Taiwan’s] travel ban will be free to return home with no more restrictions,” Chen said, adding they could board any flight to the island.
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Taiwan barred its citizens in Hubei and the capital Wuhan – where the coronavirus was first reported late last year – from getting commercial flights home after much of the province was locked down to control the outbreak in late January.
