Timeline COVID-19
- 1Citizens returning from abroad are requested to report their travel history to authorities. Those who live with underage children or chronic disease patients are requsted to stay in designated epidemic prevention hotels.
- 2Extended restrictions on cross-strait direct flights and flight transfers within Taiwan.
- 3Citizens returning from South East Asia are requested to report their travel history to authorities.Those who live with chronic disease patients, elderlies or underage children are requsted to stay in designated epidemic prevention hotels.
- 4Citizens returning from America and Europe are requested to report their travel history to authorities.Those who live with chronic disease patients, elderlies or underage children are requsted to stay in designated epidemic prevention hotels.
- 5First fixed location charter flight arrived at Taiwan, with 153 passengers undergoing centralized quarantine for 14 days.
- 6Holding a press conference to provide COVID-19 updates, initiating border control according to standard operating procedures, and onboard inspections for direct flights from Wuhan.
- 7Holding the1st Meeting on “Emergency response measures to pneumonia of an unknown cause originating from China”, culminating in the establishment of the Epidemic Response Team. Official notice sent to all medical institutions to request physicians to report all cases with suspected symptoms and patients with travel history from Wuhan.
- 8Wuhan City was listed as a Level 1 (Watch) Travel Notice destination by Taiwan CDC.
- 9Security alert level raised for all international and cross-strait ports of entry/exit.
- 10Taiwan sent two experts to Wuhan and visited the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention as well as hospitals where infected patients were being treated.
- 11Wuhan City was raised to a Level 3 (Warning) Travel Notice destination.Premier Tseng-Chang Su and Minister of Health and Welfare Shih-Chung Chen visited Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to inspect border quarantine control measures in response to the epidemic.
- 12All outbound packaged travel tours from Taiwan to Wuhan were suspended.
- 13All airlines of Taiwan suspended direct flights to and from Wuhan, and Chinese nationals residing in Wuhan were prohibited from entry into Taiwan.
- 14All visitors from abroad and returning citizens were requested to fill out the “COVID-19 Health Declaration Card” upon entry into Taiwan.
- 15Hubei Province was listed as a Level 3 (Warning) travel notice destination. All other regions in China listed as a Level 2 (Alert) travel destination.
- 16All outbound packaged tours from Taiwan to China were suspended.
- 17Individuals with travel history in Hubei Province, China with no symptoms were subjected to health checks by civil affairs personnel from their local jurisdiction for 14 days after return to Taiwan.
- 18Announcing the entry restrictions for Chinese nationals from entering into Taiwan.
- 19Formulating the measures for inbound tourists and suspected/contact cases in the community.
- 20Asymptomatic individuals with travel history in Hubei Province, China were subjected to home quarantine.