SINGAPORE: Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Monday (Jan 9) characterised Singapore's border control stance as somewhere between stringent and liberal, as he laid out the country's response to the global COVID-19 situation. Of particular concern to Members of Parliament - what Singapore was doing as China loo
Chinese authorities said previously that outbound travel for citizens will also be resumed in an “orderly” manner.
Currently, Singapore runs 38 weekly flights from China, receiving between 700 and 1,000 arrivals every day. This is less than 10 per cent pre-pandemic, when the country ran around 400 weekly flights from China, he said.China's reopening "We do not discriminate because severe cases can originate from any country, any region in the world, as shown by our data," he said.
"It may possess worrying characteristics – escape vaccine protection, be more infectious and lead to more severe cases, which would be very bad news. A nightmare variant can knock us back to almost square one," said Mr Ong. "Our local sequencing efforts on infected travellers from China further supports this," he said."The majority are BA.5.2 and BF.7 strains, which have already been detected in Singapore and other countries for months."
"New infection waves are bound to start in Singapore from time to time, over and over again, as variants with immune escape emerge, protection from vaccines and previous infections wane, and reinfections increase," he said.
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