The number of flights across the Taiwan Strait dropped by 70 percent on Monday when tighter border controls came into force in an effort to keep the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from reaching Taiwan in larger numbers, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said.
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