Covid-19: New border restrictions do not apply to travellers from Malaysia via land and sea, says Singapore minister
The restrictions will only apply to Malaysians traveling via air, not through land or sea. — TODAY pic
The new measures are aimed at reducing the risk of Covid-19 being imported into Singapore, given how the number of infections and deaths globally is increasing rapidly. “We do need precautions to be taken at these checkpoints, but it is going to be more complex given the high volume of people moving in and out of these checkpoints. On our land crossing alone, 300,000 people move across the checkpoints every day,” said Mr Wong, who co-chairs a multi-ministry taskforce to tackle the virus.
As for the United States, which has seen about 3,000 infections and more than 50 deaths, Mr Wong said that the authorities are watching developments there closely, but a key concern is with countries that have already “given up on containment” and are simply delaying the spread, such as Britain. “Countries that are not even thinking about containing the virus may be well facing a much higher number of cases outside Singapore exposure to more cases,” Mr Wong said.
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