SINGAPORE: Travellers from Singapore will now must encourage in spite of every thing four days’ quarantine in Denmark, after Singapore used to be fair no longer too long within the past removed from a European Union checklist of countries for which streak restrictions must be lifted.
On Tuesday (Nov 9), the EU checklist, which is reviewed every two weeks, used to be up to this point to exclude Singapore and Ukraine. The checklist states that the criteria for being listed takes into yarn the assorted country’s “epidemiological downside and total response to COVID-19”.
The checklist is rarely any longer legally binding and EU member states are allowed to alter their very catch restrictions for incoming travellers.
In a Fb post on Wednesday, the Embassy of Denmark in Singapore said Singapore used to be “now notion a few excessive danger country for streak to Europe”.
In accordance to the post, with the exception of for clear groups equivalent to Danish electorate “who are fully vaccinated no subject the put”, all travellers from Singapore must be examined upon arrival and self-isolate for 10 days. If a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test end result’s produced, the isolation will slay on day 4.
This applies to all travellers no subject vaccination popularity as Denmark does no longer recognise Singapore’s vaccination certificates.
VACCINATED TRAVEL LANE
Denmark used to be no doubt one of several European countries fair no longer too long within the past added to Singapore’s vaccinated streak lane (VTL) plan. The plan enables quarantine-free streak for those flying into Singapore by process of designated VTL flights.
Totally different prerequisites comprise travellers being fully vaccinated and a minimum take care of of 14 consecutive days in one or more of the VTL countries sooner than departure to Singapore.
As of Thursday, Denmark remains on the checklist of countries under the VTL plan.
The plan currently contains 12 countries, which will creep as a lot as 13 when it is prolonged to South Korea on Nov 15. Malaysia, Finland and Sweden will additionally be added to the VTL plan later this month.
Singapore reported 3,481 novel COVID-19 cases on Wednesday for a complete of 227,681 infections since the commence of the pandemic.
