We’re seeing a switch now in backgrounds. Most of these are people who were working or studying overseas.
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3600 coming in today.
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Thats more than i thought.
Bugger
Chen Shizhong says Taiwan is a very long way from needing to execute any sort of lockdown.
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The second wave from Europe, the US and South East Asia is relentless…
Overall, I have no idea, but this source has over 70,000 Taiwanese as studying abroad in 2018. In North America and Europe, around 37,000 - and haven’t basically all of those schools shut down? So a significant number of those are probably coming home. But of course, I have no idea how many have already come home, or how many may choose to stay overseas.
EDIT: And that’s just students. Workers are a whole other category. Focus Taiwan has over 700,000 working overseas - most of those in China, but 100,000 each in the USA and Southeast Asia. Again, no idea how many of those would wish to come back.
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Is there data about the number of people currently in quarantine?
I think almost all of the Chinese expats are back.
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For those wondering what this is: it’s a link to a PDF which starts downloading (which is a little scary and unexpected!), and it’s a chart in Chinese of Taiwanese diaspora numbers. Here’s a screenshot of it:
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I guess that’s related to this announcement, which seems to be quite forcibly trying to dispel rumors of an imminent shutdown? (Rumors we’ve been guilty of suggesting and spreading on this forum!).
Chinese text:
網傳「臺灣強制性休假兩星期」是假訊息！切勿散播轉傳
發佈日期：2020-03-23
中央流行疫情中心今(23)日澄清表示，近日網路上流傳多起COVID-19(武漢肺炎)不實疫情相關資訊，內容提及「臺灣明天起實施COVID-19新型冠狀病毒假期兩個星期，從2020年○月○日開始，所有上班族、學生(强制性)休假…」，指揮中心已依法移送警方偵辦中，請民眾切勿轉傳此類假訊息，避免以身試法。
指揮中心再次呼籲，流行疫情或防治措施等相關資訊均應由指揮中心統一對外公布，民眾接獲來源不明或未經證實的疫情或防治措施資訊時，應先查證內容是否屬實，切勿隨意散播、轉傳，以免觸犯「嚴重特殊傳染性肺炎防治及紓困振興特別條例」第14條，或「社會秩序維護法」第63條第1項第5款規定。有關武漢肺炎疫情或防治措施等，可參閱疾管署網站(https://www.cdc.gov.tw)或撥打免付費防疫專線1922(或0800-001922)諮詢。
Google translate:
The “two-week mandatory vacation in Taiwan” is a fake message! Never broadcast
Release Date: 2020-03-23
The Central Epidemic Epidemic Center clarified today (23) that there have been many reports of false information about COVID-19 (Wuhan pneumonia) on the Internet recently. The content mentioned that "Taiwan will implement the new COVID-19 coronavirus holiday for two weeks tomorrow. Starting from October 0, 2020, all office workers, students (compulsory) vacation … ", the command center has been transferred to the police investigation in accordance with the law, please do not retransmit such false information, to avoid personal trial.
The command center once again urged that all relevant information such as epidemic situation or control measures should be published by the command center. When people receive information on epidemic situations or control measures from unknown or unproven sources, they should first check whether the contents are true and do not distribute them at will. Retransmission, so as not to violate Article 14 of the “Special Regulations on the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Severe Special Infectious Pneumonia” or Article 63, paragraph 1 of “Social Order Maintenance Law”. For Wuhan pneumonia epidemic situation or preventive measures, please refer to the CDC website (https://www.cdc.gov.tw) or call the toll-free epidemic prevention line 1922 (or 0800-001922) for consultation.
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Yeah he made a big plea for people to not repost rumors. Plus reminded us that they are prosecuting for this.
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Taichung nightclubs close.All of them . For two weeks
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Good call. I’d close all night clubs and all night markets.
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Hope more follow. Shut them all, and night markets.
The statistic is 0. They cancelled all flights.
Fake news. I just posted 3600 arrivals today.
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Here’s the list of today’s cases from the CDC site here:
https://www.cdc.gov.tw/Bulletin/Detail/Sjh_N7ScGXj-8wyaH2SMmw?typeid=9
I translated to English using Google Translate and converted to csv, I can’t guarantee nothing went wrong in the process. You can save test as as .csv file and open in Excel.
https://justpaste.it/4ds0x
Most cases arrived back on around the 20th, and it seems they are picking up some fever-less cases as well.
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No, as @the_bear just said. Not sure where you’re getting that information from. You can check Taoyuan arrivals - many flights cancelled, but many others still coming in.
https://www.taoyuan-airport.com/main_en/flight_arrival.aspx?uid=443&pid=419&mc=sys010101