Singapore to open to all vaccinated travellers

In this photograph taken on Feb 18, 2022, people have their meals in an open-air area along a street at the Lau Pa Sat hawker centre in Singapore. (Photo: AFP)

Singapore aims to open to all travellers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 sooner rather than later as the Asian country targets restoring passenger volumes to at least 50% of pre-Covid-19 levels this year, Transport Minister S Iswaran said on Thursday.

Vaccinated travel lanes “are really a mechanism to manage the volumes” and the next phase will be to move toward quarantine-free travel for all inoculated passengers, Iswaran said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin. Then the “volume control will be relaxed.”