[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] Thirty Korean tourists who were quarantined locally due to the entry ban imposed by the African island nation of Mauritius are returning home.
On the 26th, according to the Korean Embassy in Madagascar, which manages Mauritius, 30 newlywed Korean couples who were quarantined locally without prior consultation boarded a flight to Korea.
The 30 tourists are expected to arrive at Incheon International Airport in the afternoon. Four other Korean tourists who were quarantined with them returned home earlier.
The Mauritius government on the 23rd withheld entry and imposed quarantine measures on 34 Korean tourists who arrived locally without prior consultation. The Mauritius government officially notified on the 24th that it decided to ban the entry of foreigners coming from Korea, where confirmed cases of COVID-19 are rapidly increasing.
In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly protested the entry suspension imposed without prior consultation to the Mauritius government and dispatched a consular officer from the Korean Embassy in Madagascar to provide consular assistance.
Meanwhile, Korean tourists who were banned from entry and quarantined by the Vietnamese government because they came from the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions returned to Korea around 6 a.m. on the same day.
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