Coronavirus-prevention success story Taiwan to tighten restrictions


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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan, a poster child for efforts to control the novel coronavirus, will from next month require almost all visitors to have negative COVID-19 tests before arriving, it said on Wednesday, tightening rules after an uptick in imported cases. The government will also increase the number of places where people must wear masks. Taiwan has not reported any domestic transmissions of the virus for more than 200 days, and has the pandemic well in hand thanks to early and effective prevention. But the island's government has watched nervously as imported cases rise, albeit at a far lower rate...