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Singapore will allow unvaccinated travelers to enter the country without quarantine or post-arrival testing, as part of a broader initiative to completely ease Covid-19 restrictions, adding the use of masks.
Starting August 29, all unvaccinated travelers will need to go through a seven-day quarantine upon arrival and will want to go through a polymerase chain reaction check upon arrival to detect the coronavirus.
However, those travelers will have to test negative before departure, the country’s fitness ministry said in an Aug. 24 statement.
Singapore is also eliminating the mandatory use of masks in maximum public spaces, adding grocery shopping in shopping malls and at the airport, it has not completely calmed down with the mask mandate.
Passengers on flights to and from the city-state will be required to comply with the airlines’ individual mask wearing policy, and the Ministry of Health urges passengers to “check with their respective operators before seeing if the mask requirement applies to their journey. “. “
Welcoming Singapore’s resolution to ease restrictions for unvaccinated travellers, IATA’s regional vice president for Asia Pacific, Philip Goh, said: “These adjustments bring Singapore closer to what we are seeing in other parts of Asia and the rest of the world. COVID measures for all travelers. “
In addition, the Japanese government has tightened access restrictions, pre-departure testing for incoming travelers who have won 3 shots of the coronavirus vaccine.
Speaking at a virtual press conference, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said his government is still contemplating whether or not to set daily access limits for travelers, compared to the 20,000 existing visitors.
Japanese reports on Aug. 23, which mentioned unnamed government officials, said Tokyo was contemplating raising the daily limit to 50,000 starting in September. The same resources also said Japan was contemplating removing the requirement that all incoming visitors will have to participate in a guided tour, a move that took time to gain traction.
Japan, along with its northern Asian neighbor China, is one of the last major economies to still impose strict access requirements on travelers. These strict measures have prompted calls for the country to continue reopening. Speaking in Singapore in May, IATA Director General Willie Walsh called Tokyo’s reluctance to reopen “disappointing” and noted that the country is a key market for several operators.
Meanwhile, IATA’s Goh says the move is “a step in the right direction, but has doubled in calls to ‘restore travel’.
In his statement, Goh said: “However, the announcement did not come with a timeline to restore the visa waiver program, remove restrictions on incoming tourists, and remove the visitor limit. While we welcome the latest developments, Japan wants to do more to repair travel in general. “
I have updated with comments from IATA.
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