Malaysia exempt from Singapore’s new travel curbs
About 200,000 people travel between the Singapore and Malaysia checkpoints daily by land. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 15, 2020.
SINGAPORE’s newly introduced border restrictions on travellers do not apply to sea and land crossings to and from Malaysia. Singapore’s Multi-Ministry Taskforce on Covid-19 co-chair Lawrence Wong said while the order applied to all of the Southeast Asian nations, a separate arrangement with Malaysia had been worked out.
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