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Singapore removes quarantine for Hong Kong, Macau travellers as travel bubble bursts for good
- The new rule applies to short-term travellers from Hong Kong and Macau starting next Thursday with the city state essentially starting a quarantine-free travel corridor with Germany next month
- Hong Kong and Singapore ‘will not be able to launch or sustain the travel bubble in its present form’, Singapore’s transport minister says
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Singapore will begin admitting travellers from Hong Kong and Macau without quarantining them even though the measure will not be reciprocated, officials said on Thursday, as they added that discussions on a travel bubble would no longer take place.
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The unilateral admission of visitors from Hong Kong and Macau starting on Thursday, August 26, without quarantine is part of a months-old scheme currently extended to mainland China, Taiwan and New Zealand.
Singapore citizens, permanent residents and long-term pass holders arriving from Hong Kong and Macau will have earlier access to the scheme starting this Saturday.
Travellers from Hong Kong and Macau will need only a negative result from a polymerase chain reaction test and do not have to be vaccinated.
They would still need to serve quarantine upon return to their respective cities.
Earlier plans for a Singapore-Hong Kong travel bubble, aborted twice, are now dead in the water as both sides have “concluded that we will not be able to launch or sustain the travel bubble in its present form”, transport minister S. Iswaran said.
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