{"id":49299,"date":"2022-10-13T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T23:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/13\/taiwan-opens-borders-to-tourists-as-restrictions-eased-after-25-years"},"modified":"2022-10-13T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T23:13:13","slug":"taiwan-opens-borders-to-tourists-as-restrictions-eased-after-2-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49299","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan opens borders to tourists as restrictions eased after 2.5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entry rules to island lifted to allow unfettered access, while mainland China remains one of the few places keeping borders closed<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan lifted all its Covid-19 entry restrictions on Thursday, allowing tourists unfettered access the self-ruled island after more than 2.5 years of border controls.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong and Taiwan, together with mainland China, required most visitors to complete a mandatory quarantine period throughout the pandemic, even as most countries reopened their borders to tourists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/13\/taiwan-opens-borders-to-tourists-as-restrictions-eased-after-25-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entry rules to island lifted to allow unfettered access, while mainland China remains one of the few places keeping borders closedTaiwan lifted all its Covid-19 entry restrictions on Thursday, allowing tourists unfettered access the self-ruled island a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,1066,74,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan","category-travel"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49299","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49300,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49299\/revisions\/49300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}