/ Staff writer, with CNAThe first independent travelers from Hong Kong to visit Taiwan in three years after COVID-19 travel restrictions were lifted on Monday said that night markets and popular eateries were among what they had missed the most about Taiwan.
Taiwan lifted all its COVID-19 entry restrictions on Thursday, allowing tourists unfettered access the self-ruled island after over 2 1/2 years of border controls.
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Eleven imported COVID-19 cases previously reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) have the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, the center said yesterday.
The cases brought the country’s total number of Omicron cases to 27, of which 23 were confirmed over the past week, said Centers for Disease Control Deputy Director-General Philip Lo (羅一鈞), who is deputy head of the CECC’s medical response division.
The 27 cases are people who arrived from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Eswatini, Germany, Nigeria, the UK and the US, Lo told a daily news briefing in Taipei.
Arrivals from the US accounted for the largest number of cases at