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Taiwan cuts COVID quarantine for arrivals even as cases rise

FILE PHOTO: People wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walk past shops at Taipei’s Taoyuan International Airport, in Taiwan, October 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ben Blanchard/ File Photo

Taiwan announced on Tuesday it was cutting to seven days from 10 mandatory quarantine for all arrivals, its latest relaxation of the rules to try to live with COVID-19 and resume normal life even as the number of domestic infections spikes.

Taiwan has kept its quarantine rules in place as large parts of the rest of Asia have relaxed or lifted them completely, though it had already reduced the time spent in isolation from two weeks to 10 days in March.

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