Singapore Finally Gets Its Covid ‘Happy Day’
It won’t be a big, U.K.-style burst of freedom, but it’s welcome all the same.
I mean, if that doesn't make you happy, I don’t know what will.
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Singapore is shedding key pieces of its pandemic armor with relative alacrity. While officials have long been adamant the city-state would never have a U.K.-style “Freedom Day,” sweeping changes that take effect Tuesday get pretty close. It may just be a question of semantics.
In what the nation’s health minister called a “happy day,” Singapore abandoned limits on group size, jettisoned social distancing and dropped curbs on the number of people who can work from offices. Many venues will no longer require folks to check in with the government contract-tracing app. Vaccinated visitors can forgo pre-departure tests.