September 18, Covid-19 Update from Asia

Mostly progress this week, but slow. Vietnam begins to plan for international travel with plans for flights with several countries and the potential for shorted quarantine requirements for arrivals from “safe” countries.  The list of those countries qualifying as safe is yet undefined.  Australia is opening a door for entry of non-residents for critical sectors […]

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 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 […]