Only sea, land crossings exempted from tighter entry rules, says Singapore

The republic says air travel is subjected to the new 14-day stay-home requirement. FMTNews Singapore Restrictions Covid19 Coronavirus

Singapore says 200,000 people move across the land border checkpoints daily.

Commenting on a report headlined “S’pore tightens entry rules, Malaysians exempted”, the Singapore High Commission said the exemption does not apply to air travel between the two countries. The co-chair of the Covid-19 task force, Lawrence Wong, said a separate arrangement has been worked out for Malaysians using sea and land crossings because of the close proximity and high interdependence between both countries.

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