Insights
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 […]
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July 31, Covid-19 Update from Asia
Some progress has been made in the Philippines and Japan this week as the former plans to allow Long-term Visa holders to reenter starting August first and the latter is providing a narrow entry capabilities but only for select foreigners. Both India and Myanmar have extended their nationwide measures to control the virus through until […]
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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 […]