New restrictions have been placed on travellers from several African countries by the Ministry of Health (MOH) amid reports of a potentially more contagious variant of the Covid-19 virus circulating in that region.
MOH said on Friday (Nov 26) that all travellers with recent travel history to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe will from 11.59pm on Saturday no longer be allowed to enter into or transit through Singapore.
This also applies to those who have obtained prior approval for entry into Singapore, as long as they have been in those countries in the past 14 days.
Travellers from six European countries will have to serve a 10-day stay-home notice (SHN) from Dec 1, as the Covid-19 situation is worsening in these countries, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday (Nov 26).
The countries – Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Liechtenstein and Slovakia – will be reclassified into Category III of the Health Ministry’s Covid-19 risk assessment framework for border measures from 11.59pm on Dec 1.
Travellers from these countries currently have to serve a seven-day SHN at a declared place of accommodation.
