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Singapore government outlines plans for quarantine free travel by September
July 27th 2021
Singapore finance minister, Lawrence Wong, said the country was working towards allowing quarantine free travel by September as it calculated vaccination rates will reach 80% of the nearly six million residents of the island state by that time. Read More » Quarantine free travel will be considered with countries or regions that have the COVID-19 situation under control, Singapore said. “While other countries may have come to terms with a certain level of COVID-19 cases and even deaths, this is not the choice we want to make in Singapore,” Wong said in a speech to Parliament. “At the same time, there is no need to wait for everyone to be vaccinated before we begin to open up. This would result in holding back the entire reopening timeline until much later in the year, which is not tenable." Singapore has been battling a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 first identified in several karaoke bars.
