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Singapore expands travel corridor to eight more countries

Singapore will exempt quarantine requirements for passengers from eight other countries who have been fully vaccinated from October 19.
Singapore expands travel corridor to eight more countries ảnh 1People get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Singapore. (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Singapore (VNA) - Singapore will exemptquarantine requirements for passengers from eight other countries who have been fully vaccinated from October 19.

The move is one of Singapore's efforts to gradually lift restrictive measures to live safelywith the COVID-19 pandemic.

With more than 80 percent of its population fully vaccinated againstCOVID-19, in mid-September, Singapore officially resumed international travelfor vaccinated passengers from Germany and Brunei under the “VaccinatedTravel Lane".

From October 19, this programme will be expanded to eight more countries,including the UK, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain andthe US. The travel corridor with the Republic of Korea is expected to begin on November 15.

Under this policy, passengers will not be required to undergoisolation if they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and tested negativebefore departure and upon arrival in Singapore.

Earlier, on October 9, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced aseries of easing measures under the strategy of "living with COVID-19.

He said that the"Zero-COVID" strategy that Singapore applied in 2020 wasappropriate, but the appearance of the Delta variant forced Singapore toadjust and identify living with COVID-19 when the rate vaccine coveragereached 80 percent in August 2021./.
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