Type of Intervention: Guidance, Other Announcement
Sectors Involved: Health, Immigration, Tourism
Intervention Categories: Surveillance and respoonse measures; Lifting of international travel measures
Level of Jurisdiction: National
Lead People/Agency: Multi-Ministry Taskforce
Overview: Gradual Border Reopenings Planned, with quarantine measures in place. Target audience – all persons looking to travel to Singapore
Full details here: https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/gradual-re-opening-of-travel-and-changes-to-border-measures
Type of Justification: Advice of INTERNAL government advisory committee or group
Evidence/Justification: Eventual reopening to travel is important for economic and social factors. The taskforce considers the type of bilateral discussions that have taken place to date, including ‘Green Lanes’ , and considers that some other countries have been succcessful in limiting the transmission of COVID, sufficient to consider the risk of imported cases over gradually opened borders that facilitate trade and interaction