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01 Jul 2021 12:13PM (Updated:
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HONG KONG: Police were out in force across Hong Kong on Thursday (Jul 1), ready to stamp down on any sign of dissent as China s Communist Party celebrated its centenary, in a vivid illustration of how the once-outspoken finance hub has been muzzled.
The grand celebrations in Beijing coincided with the 24th anniversary of Hong Kong s 1997 handover to China by colonial Britain.
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Travellers on the route – which attracted 15 to 20 flights a day each way before the pandemic – won t have to quarantine and there will be no restrictions on the purpose of travel.
However, if the seven-day moving average of the daily number of unlinked local Covid-19 cases is more than five for either Singapore or Hong Kong, the scheme will be suspended, Yau and Ong said. The relaunch . signifies that gradual resumption of cross-border travel is achievable through mutual collaborations among different places, said Yau.
For Hong Kong, which has banned non-residents from entering the country since March 2020, the deal with Singapore is its first bilateral resumption of travel ties with another city.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said that based on its investigations, all the locally transmitted cases are in the community and none are from the dormitories. MOH said all five cases had already been placed under quarantine earlier. - The Straits Times/ANN
SINGAPORE, April 24 (The Straits Times/ANN): There were five new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infection confirmed on Saturday afternoon (April 24).
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said that based on its investigations, all are in the community and none are from the dormitories.
MOH said all five cases had already been placed under quarantine earlier.
Of these, four are close contacts of a previously confirmed case, an Indonesian man, 39, who was a seaman on board a bunker tanker.