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Old Mar 19, 2020 | 1:55 am
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Originally Posted by username
Taiwan started restrictions at 00:00 19 March.

A French guy who was staying in TW on visitor visa took a quick trip to Singapore so he could re-enter TW and get another 3 months. He got to TW too late. He left most of his stuff in TW but they would not let him in.

A British guy went from LON-SIN-TPE. His SIN-TPE flight started after the announced time but he originated in LON before the deadline. So, they let him in.
Would rather be stuck in SIN than TPE anyways .

Where'd he end up though, hope not sent back to france!
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