I thought Taiwan stopped letting in workers from the Philippines?
Indonesia, but was only for 2 weeks IIRC.
Well those dogs arenât going to walk themselves are they now?
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Migrant workers from Indonesia are no longer allowed to enter Taiwan; the exceptions are fishers, who still test positive quite regularly and appear in the imported cases updates.
Taiwan has no current entry restrictions on workers from the Philippines, though there were restrictions back in September 2020 if I remember this correctly.
Guy
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Taiwan News has posted a brief report on todayâs imported casesâthree migrant workers from the Philippines (all asymptomatic) and a Taiwanese returnee who apparently decided it was a good idea to visit relatives in South African last October. Live and learn!
Guy
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I heard SA is nice this time of the year, so I wonder why people donât stay there.
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Probably because itâs not nice any time of the year.
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The recent SA variant of COVID-19 is getting a lot of press. I imagine this has alarmed some folks who otherwise thought it was a good idea to travel there in the midst of a pandemic.
Guy
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Surging in summerâthat should give you a hint about how rough things are in SA right now.
Guy
Cape Town is a popular Summer Holiday destination for people with money from the UK - Beach Houses and the like.
Which summer?
Youâre biased. 
How quickly things can go wrongâŚ
Vietnam is preparing for as many as 30,000 new Covid-19 cases as the more infectious variant of the virus first detected in the UK spreads through the north of the country. The countryâs health ministry reported nine new coronavirus cases on Friday in four northern provinces and the capital Hanoi, bringing the total number of local transmissions reported this week to 91. The outbreak has jolted Vietnam, which had reported no local infections in almost two months. The countryâs efforts to contain Covid-19 have been hailed as a global success.
Letâs keep our fingers crossed for Taiwanâs continued success
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And look at how theyâve responded.
They test large numbers of people and lock affected areas down aggressively and rapidly.
Early on Friday, authorities imposed a lockdown at a 27-floor apartment building in a central Hanoi district where the person who tested positive lives, state media reported. All residents in the block, home to hundreds of people, were asked to remain in their apartments.
Quite a different approach to Taiwanâs retroactive quarantine, which was a bit of a disaster.
Happy to be lucky or good, but I continue to believe that thereâs no reason Taiwan canât and shouldnât try to be both.
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Heads up! New rules about eating and drinking on trains (and other forms of mass transport) to take effect on February 1:
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Vietnam a communist dictature compare what is comparable. If you compare to China, Vietnam is totally inefficient, China lock down whole citiesâŚ
Just to show that trying to compare strategies between Vietnam and Taiwan is a bit weirdâŚ
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Glad Minister Chen is making the decisions around here.
Vietnam is a commie nation with no freedom. Keep Vietnamâs and Chinaâs commie governments out of Taiwan.
Iâm sorry, what? I must have missed that particular disasterâŚ
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You missed the part where thousands of people who were potentially exposed were retroactively ordered to quarantine after they had been out and about for days following their potential exposures? Arenât you one of the people who watches the pressers everyday? 
Lots of people who got messages about their need to quarantine, or who were confused about their status, flooded the CECC hotline, which was initially understaffed and unable to take the calls.
There were multiple news reports about this and people posting about the situation online (PTT, etc.).
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