Taiwan puts 10-day travel ban on medical workers treating SARS

Taiwan puts 10-day travel ban on medical workers treating SARS

GENEVA, Switzerland - Taiwan's Health Minister Chen Chien-jen speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Geneva on May 21. He said Taiwan has introduced a new SARS quarantine rule banning medical workkers from leaving Taiwan for 10 days -- the incubation period for the respiratory disease -- after they treated SARS patients. (Kyodo)

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