Singapore Committed to Reopening Borders Even as Omicron Spreads
- Aim to establish more quarantine-free travel lanes: Iswaran
- Airport staff and aircrew to undergo additional Covid testing
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Singapore is committed to steadily reopening its borders and aims to set up more quarantine-free travel agreements, Transport Minister S. Iswaran said in Parliament on Monday as the Asian country looks beyond the rising number of coronavirus cases.
Passenger traffic will improve this year at Singapore’s Changi Airport after reaching about 15% of pre-pandemic levels at the end of 2021 from 3% a year ago, though a full recovery will likely “several years,” Iswaran said.