The Indonesian government said Thursday it is ready to start sending migrant workers again to 22 countries and regions around the world, including Taiwan, after a suspension of nearly four months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On June 20, the Taiwan Education Center in Surabaya at Asia University hosted the Taiwan Higher Education Fair Online 2020, in conjunction with the Taiwan Education Center in Jakarta and the Taiwan Education Center in Yogyakarta, and with the support and assistance of Taiwan’s Ministry of Education and the Education Division at the Taipei Economic and Trade Office, Jakarta, Indonesia (TETO).
The outbreak of the coronavirus led to schools and universities in Thailand shutting down. So instead of going onto campuses, the Education Division at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand and the Taiwan Education Center in Thailand (TEC) adopted new methods to inform Thai students about Taiwan’s higher education.
In response to the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federation of Alumni Associations of Taiwan Universities, Malaysia (FAATUM) has successfully created a new normal for promoting the higher education environment in Taiwan: holding a virtual Education Fair, and webinars. These transformed education events are offering services to the public very effectively in different forms.
Taiwan on Wednesday thanked the governments of the United States and Australia for their joint statement reaffirming Taiwan’s important role in the Indo-Pacific region and their intent to maintain strong unofficial ties with Taiwan.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced that that no additional cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were confirmed in Taiwan on July 29. The CECC reported that a cumulative total of 81,167 cases related to COVID-19 have been reported in Taiwan among which COVID-19 has been ruled out in 80,105. Of these reported cases, infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in 467 cases.
Regarding some scholars’ opinion that mass testing should be required for travelers bound for Taiwan, the CECC stated that though mass testing can identify asymptomatic carriers, our measures of a 14-day period of home quarantine imposed on arrivals and a 7-day period of self-health management following the end of the quarantine period for asymptomatic individuals have continued to effectively contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan.
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said Wednesday there is no need to test all arrivals in Taiwan for COVID-19, as current quarantine regulations have proven to be successful in disease prevention.
