Local students in Taiwan petition to ease quarantine measures

An online petition is being organized by Macau students studying in Taiwan to request both jurisdictions to simplify quarantine measures for this group of people, considering both places are low-risk for Covid-19.
As Lunar New Year approaches, discussions regarding these students’ return to Macau are heating up. Normally, Taiwanese universities have an approximately one-month long break for the Lunar New Year.
Given current quarantine measures – 14 days in each jurisdiction – these students will need to spend at least 28 days in quarantine if they plan to return to Macau for a holiday. As such, they will only have two to three days at most to spend with family and friends.
In their preamble, they remarked that Taiwan has lowered the bar to business travelers on trips, for a period shorter than three months, from low-risk areas. The students see the requirements applied to them as differential treatment.
They hope the two governments can “communicate to shorten the quarantine time for Macau students or make adjustments to entry measures.” Nonetheless, they stressed that they are willing to comply with quarantine measures.
Taiwan has seen scattered imported cases detected during quarantine hotel stays, which the authorities categorized as being low risk in terms of community outbreak. Meanwhile, Macau has seen nearly 250 days without a new infection. AL