August 7, Covid-19 Update from Asia

Similar to much of the rest of the world, cases of Covid-19 continued to appear in Asia this week. Japan’s new spike is already larger than the initial outbreak and Taiwan has removed it from it’s medium-risk travel list.  Prefectures and cities are re-instituting various states of emergency and cross-prefecture moment is discouraged.  We are […]

July 24, Covid-19 Update from Asia

This week saw ongoing movement restrictions and permission changes based upon rates of COVID-19 infections. In Hong Kong where recent case increases have immigration officials are working partially from home, causing visa delays, the US and Kazakhstan were added to the list of high-risk countries.  Australia and Hong Kong also were impacted as Taiwan removed […]

July 17, Covid-19 Update from Asia

It has been another week of incremental changes in Asia. On the positive side of things, Macau has lifted all quarantine requirements for travelers arriving from mainland China.  Japan is accepting and processing Certificate of Eligibility (COE) applications for medium and long-term stays, albeit processing times are longer than normal.  In Singapore, the number of […]