Singapore monitoring COVID-19 situation as cases go up before Hong Kong travel bubble
05 May, 2021
Singapore is monitoring the COVID-19 circumstances closely, the Ministry of Transfer (MOT) said on Wednesday (May 5), as community conditions in Singapore spike ahead of the launch of a travelling bubble with Hong Kong.
"The vast majority of the city cases in Singapore happen to be linked. We must anticipate such ups and downs, which explains why we have set the target launch time of the flights bubble a month following the announcement," said a ministry spokesperson in an email answer queries from CNA.
"We need to continuously find ways to little by little start our borders for flights, to ensure the long-term survival of Changi Airport and Singapore Airlines."
Giving an answer to a reporter's concern about the travel bubble through the COVID-19 multi-ministry process force press conference on Tuesday, Education Minister Lawrence Wong explained Singapore and Hong Kong "stay in touch".
"We will screen the situation and we will analysis and assess whether you will see any changes and present updates in due lessons," he said.
When the travelling bubble was announced, for the second time, on Apr 26, it had been set to launch on May 26. This emerged after a previous launch in November 2020 was delayed after a spike in situations in Hong Kong.
But there's now been a hop in local situations in Singapore which prompted authorities here to tighten COVID-19 management steps from May 8 to May 30.
Singapore has also announced tougher border restrictions, extending stay-residence notices to 21 days for travellers from higher-risk countries or perhaps regions.
Under the conditions of the agreement, the Singapore-Hong Kong travel bubble will be suspended for at least 2 weeks if the seven-day moving average of unlinked local COVID-19 cases a day, excluding dormitory resident cases in Singapore, is more than five in either Singapore or Hong Kong.
Singapore's cases have got not reached that threshold.
The number of new cases in the community has increased from 11 cases in the week before to 64 cases in the past week. The quantity of unlinked cases locally in addition has increased from four cases in the week before to 10 cases during the past week, MOH said within an upgrade on Tuesday night.
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