{"id":27626,"date":"2021-02-01T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/taiwan-waives-covid-quarantine-fine-for-man-who-was-kidnapped"},"modified":"2021-02-01T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T11:20:52","slug":"taiwan-waives-covid-quarantine-fine-for-man-who-was-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27626","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan waives Covid quarantine fine for man who was kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities revoke \u00a32,600 penalty after it emerges debt collectors had abducted him from self-isolation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Taiwanese man penalised for breaching Covid quarantine regulations has had his fine revoked after it emerged he had been kidnapped by debt collectors.<\/p>\n<p>The man, whose surname is Chen, returned from Hong Kong in late October and began his 14 days of mandatory home quarantine at a friend\u2019s home in Nantou county. The next day, however, men identified as debt collectors arrived at the house and mistook Chen for his friend, who owed them money. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/taiwan-waives-covid-quarantine-fine-for-man-who-was-kidnapped\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities revoke \u00a32,600 penalty after it emerges debt collectors had abducted him from self-isolationCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Taiwanese man penalised for breaching Covid quarantine regulations has had his fine rev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27627,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27626\/revisions\/27627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}