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2 July
SINGAPORE. Health Minister Ong Ye Kung has told The Straits Times that overseas travel to certain destinations may be possible for vaccinated Singaporeans before the end of the year.
He said that the government may allow leisure travel to Hong Kong, the EU and US, where vaccination rates are climbing fast.
He told the media title: “We could open up to safe regions first. Once the trajectory is going down and a place’s (Covid-19) infection rate is going down, vaccinations are going up and you go below, say, two or three infections per 100,000, we should start monitoring those countries seriously.”
On the possible opening of a travel corridor between Singapore and Hong Kong, the Minister said that both cities were in a “good place” to revisit the opportunity.
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