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Updated: October 13, 2022

Taiwan Reopens To Tourists After Lifting COVID-19 Rules

By Quadri Adejumo
October 13, 2022
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Taiwan has reopened to tourists after lifting the COVID-19 rules.

Visitors began arriving in the country on Thursday without the need for quarantine or PCR tests for the first time in more than two and a half years.

Al Jazeera added that the country welcomed the first group of visitors arriving on a flight from Bangkok at the island’s main international airport near Taipei.

Tourism Bureau Director-General Chang Shi-Chung also said the island’s reopening was a chance to “bring back to life and rebuild cross-border tourism”.

Taiwan is the last major economy to lift COVID-19 quarantine apart from mainland China, which has stuck to an ultra-strict “zero COVID” policy.