SINGAPORE: Singapore’s government said it’s assessing any potential changes to a planned travel bubble with Hong Kong after a flare-up of Covid-19 infections triggered fresh restrictions in the city state.
The tighter rules come little more than a week after an agreement to open an air travel corridor with Hong Kong on May 26. The Hong Kong-Singapore accord, which had already been delayed several times due to infection outbreaks, includes a clear threshold on the number of linked local cases before the corridor is suspended.
According to the terms of the agreement, the travel bubble will be closed for two weeks if the seven-day moving average of the daily number of unlinked local cases is more than five in either Singapore or Hong Kong.All of the five new cases Singapore reported yesterday are tied to a growing cluster at a large public hospital that stands at 40 and are linked to the India variant.