Taiwan lifts facility-based quarantine for arriving travelers from the Philippines

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Travelers arriving from the Philippines will no longer be forced to stay in a quarantine facility once they land in Taiwan, the country’s Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Wednesday (November 4).
Starting Monday (November 9), all passengers arriving from the Philippines may undergo the mandatory 14-day quarantine and one-week-self health management at home as announced.
The agency further announced that the government will also stop requiring a COVID-19 test at the end of the quarantine period once the traveler from the Philippines shows no symptoms of the disease.
The easing of restrictions was based on the recorded slowdown in COVID-19 infections in the Philippines.
Meanwhile, the agency stressed that travelers from the Philippines who develop symptoms of COVID-19 before arrival to Taiwan must inform health authorities of their condition upon arrival as they will be required to have a COVID-19 test if necessary.
Starting November 9, only those passengers who will show symptoms of COVID-19 within 14 days prior to their arrival to Taiwan will be quarantined in a government-managed facility as they will be given two COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests within a 24 hours interval.
They will only be allowed to quarantine at home of at a hotel if both tests yield negative results.