Doha: Singapore will allow quarantine-free travel for fully vaccinated people from various countries including Qatar.
The city-state will allow quarantine-free travel for fully vaccinated people from countries including Qatar, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia it said as it looks to safely move past the pandemic that has kept its 5.5 million residents home for more than a year.
Inoculated visitors from Indonesia and India will be able to enter Singapore from November 29, while those from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar will be allowed from December 6 without having to quarantine, the Ministry of Health said in a statement Monday. Unvaccinated children aged 12 and under can accompany eligible adults.
Singapore plans to start the arrangement with Indonesia with two designated flights between Singapore and Jakarta every day and will increase that to four, Transport Minister S. Iswaran said.
It’s aiming for two daily flights each from Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai, he said. Both countries were among the top five markets for passenger arrivals at Singapore’s Changi Airport in 2019.
The Southeast Asian nation started gradually reopening its borders to general travel in September when it kicked off a vaccinated travel lane with Germany and Brunei. The city-state, home to the world’s best airport for eight years until 2020, has ditched its Covid-Zero policy and pivoted to an approach of living with the virus.
