A Chinese who swam to the offshore Dadan Island on Sunday will be kept in quarantine for 14 days. That’s in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dadan Island was long a military outpost and belongs to Kinmen Island.
The 45-year old Chinese man swam 7 hours across the Taiwan Strait from Xiamen, China to Taiwan’s Dadan Island. He was handcuffed on Sunday morning. As the COVID-19 pandemic is still going strong, all patrol guards wore protective clothing.
The man surnamed Lee said he is from Sichuan province, in the southwest of China. He wanted to come to Taiwan because of its freedom and democracy.
He will be placed under quarantine for 14 days. A patrol guard said they notified health authorities of the man as he is the first illegal Chinese immigrant since the COVID-19 outbreak.