Compulsory 14-day stay home for those who have visited Asean, Japan, Switzerland, or UK in past fortnight. FMTNews Singapore
A Singapore minister says the new travel rule would be difficult on the 200,000 people who move across the land border every day.
The co-chair of a Covid-19 taskforce, Lawrence Wong, said a separate arrangement has been worked out for Malaysia because of the close proximity and high interdependence between both countries. Wong, who is the national development minister, said 200,000 people move across the land border checkpoints daily and a new 14-day stay-home requirement was impractical and would be very difficult and disruptive on both countries.
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