COVID-19 measures for travellers from Hong Kong tightened given 'deteriorating outbreak': MOH
12 December, 2020
Singapore will tighten COVID-19 border measures for travellers who have travelled to Hong Kong in the 14 days ahead of entering Singapore, with most to serve a 14-day stay-home notice at dedicated facilities.
The brand new measure will apply to travellers entering Singapore from 11.59pm on Sunday (Dec 13), the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a news release on Friday.
From 11.59pm on Dec 18, all travellers entering Singapore who have a travel history in the past 2 weeks to Hong Kong will also be required to take a COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test within 72 hours before their departure.
They will have to present a valid negative COVID-19 test as a condition of approval to enter Singapore, said MOH.
Singaporeans and everlasting residents are exempt from the PCR test.
"The multi-ministry taskforce provides been closely monitoring the global COVID-19 situation, and will be tightening border measures presented the deteriorating outbreak situation in Hong Kong," said MOH.
Previously, travellers from Hong Kong were permitted to serve a seven-day stay-home notice at their host to residence.
The changes are in view of "the increased threat of community spread recently", the ministry added.
Travellers from Hong Kong will be permitted to opt-out of the dedicated facilities and serve their stay-home notice at their host to residence.
To do hence, they must not have visited any various other place within the last 14 days ahead of entering Singapore, and must occupy their host to residence alone or with family members with the same travel history and serving the same duration of stay-home notice.
"As the global circumstance evolves, we will continue to adjust our border measures to control the chance of importation and transmission to the community," said MOH.
Hong Kong confirmed 86 different COVID-19 infections on Friday, of which 81 were locally transmitted.
Friday's circumstance count snapped a good three-day streak greater than 100 daily COVID-19 cases in the town.
Earlier this month, Singapore and Hong Kong announced the deferral of an flights bubble amid a spike of COVID-19 cases in the Chinese town. The travel bubble was at first scheduled to get started on on Nov 22.
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