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SINGAPORE, May 15 Changi Airport will segregate flights and passengers from high-risk countries and regions from those arriving from low-risk places, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said today (May 15).
Flights arriving from high-risk regions will be assigned different piers. Passengers on these flights will use different arrival immigration halls, baggage belts and toilets from those arriving on flights from low-risk countries or regions.
Passengers on flights from “very high-risk countries” will be escorted through the airport and have their on-arrival Covid-19 tests done at separate health screening stations.
The Singapore government said Friday it s very likely that the travel bubble with Hong Kong will not begin on May 26 as planned. It comes as the Southeast Asian country further tightened measures to curb rising local Covid cases, including stopping all dine-in services and capping public gatherings to two.
The Singapore-Hong Kong air travel bubble would have allowed travelers to skip quarantine
. It has faced multiple delays from its initial launch date on November 2020 as Hong Kong reported resurgence in Covid-19 cases.
Both Singapore and Hong Kong are major Asian business hubs without domestic air travel markets. Their tourism and aviation industries, heavily reliant on international travel, have been badly hit by the pandemic.
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A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 plane is seen parked on the tarmac at Singapore Changi Airport on Oct 24, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman)
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SINGAPORE: Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Friday (May 14) that Singapore will critically review the start date of the air travel bubble between Singapore and Hong Kong, given Singapore s rising number of COVID-19 cases.