Taiwan to expand airport COVID testing scheme to more flights


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CORONAVIRUS/Taiwan to expand airport COVID testing scheme to more flights Taipei, Jan. 18 (CNA) Taiwan will expand its current COVID-19 testing scheme, which currently requires passengers arriving on long-haul flights to test negative before clearing immigration, to more flights in the coming days, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) said Tuesday. The expansion is planned following two recent cases involving an individual who works in disease control at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and a taxi driver tasked with taking passengers from the airport to quarantine facilities, Chen said during the Central Epidemic Command Center's (CECC's) press briefing Tuesday. The decision was...