The transportation ministry has announced it is easing restrictions designed to limit the potential for COVID-19 to spread on public transit.
It has been over a month since Taiwan’s last domestically-transmitted case of COVID-19. This has led officials to consider loosening restrictions put in place in the past few months to contain COVID-19’s spread.
According to the transportation ministry, rules about wearing surgical masks on trains and long-distance buses will be loosened on June 7. Under the relaxed rules, passengers will still have to wear masks when entering stations. But they may remove them once inside their train or bus on the condition that they maintain a safe distance from one another or are separated by barriers.
Also to be relaxed are rules about the serving of meals on trains and domestic flights.