Pre-departure Covid-19 tests not required for vaccinated travelers to SingaporeAll vaccinated travelers and non-fully vaccinated children aged 12 and below arriving in Singapore via air or sea checkpoints will no longe...
23 Apr, 2022, 08.09 AM IST
Singapore Airlines to expand vaccinated travel lane network to India, 26 other countries: Report"New VTL services will be added progressively to selected cities in Southeast Asia and India, as well as Athens, from March 16, 2022," a Ch...
15 Mar, 2022, 06.47 PM IST
Singapore Airlines Group to operate all India-Singapore flights as vaccinated travel lane servicesSIA Group's move comes after the Singapore government decided to expand its VTL network, including from all cities in India, the company sa...
04 Mar, 2022, 06.54 PM IST
Singapore allows quarantine-free travelling from all Indian citiesLikewise, vaccinated air travellers will be able to enter Singapore from more cities in Malaysia and Indonesia without having to serve quar...
04 Mar, 2022, 12.42 PM IST
Covid vaccination mandatory in Singapore from February 2022The vaccination condition will not apply to permanent residence, long-term visit pass and student pass applicants for those who are aged be...
27 Dec, 2021, 08.57 AM IST
Singapore to include India and Indonesia in vaccinated travel lane; allows quarantine-free travel for fully-vaccinated travelers from Nov 29Addressing a COVID-19 multi-ministry task force press conference on Monday, Transport Minister S Iswaran said Singapore and India have been...
15 Nov, 2021, 07.21 PM IST
Australia, US & Singapore issue COVID guidelines for travellers. Details hereIf a traveller recently recovered from Covid-19 and wishes to go to the US, he/she needs to travel with documentation of recovery which sho...
28 Oct, 2021, 02.05 PM IST
Singapore will require vaccination or daily tests for workplace access next yearThose who refuse vaccination will have to pay for a daily test and receive a negative result before they return to the workplace. The annou...
24 Oct, 2021, 10.59 AM IST
Singapore expands quarantine-free travel for vaccinated passengers from eight countriesSingapore Airlines said flights from Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles and New York were scheduled to arrive on Tuesday under the programme. P...
19 Oct, 2021, 11.11 AM IST
Singapore extends vaccinated travel lane scheme to 8 more countriesThis expansion is being conducted in a "cautious and step-by-step manner" to help "reclaim and rebuild" Singapore's status as an internatio...
09 Oct, 2021, 04.56 PM IST
Singapore to start vaccinating 12-18 year-olds as PM outlines reopening plans"As long as our population is mostly vaccinated, we should be able to trace, isolate, and treat the cases that pop up, and prevent a severe...
31 May, 2021, 04.47 PM IST
BioNTech to build mRNA manufacturing site in SingaporeThe biotech company said the Singapore production facility will have an estimated annual capacity of several hundred million doses of mRNA-...
10 May, 2021, 12.41 PM IST
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong receives COVID-19 vaccine, urges others to follow"We got vaccinated early to show Singaporeans we are confident that the vaccine is safe and effective," he said in a post accompanying the ...
08 Jan, 2021, 04.56 PM IST
Singapore starts coronavirus vaccination for healthcare workersSingapore became the first Asian country to start vaccinating healthcare workers against Covid-19 with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Wednesday...
30 Dec, 2020, 10.02 AM IST
Singapore approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, first shipment expected by end-December: PMLee, in a televised address on Singapore's COVID-19 situation, said the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccin...
15 Dec, 2020, 10.27 AM IST
Despite urgency, pharma companies committed to science first policy on vaccine: Industry bodyVaccine development is a complex process, traditionally it takes as long as 20 years, said Ashish Pal, vice-president of the Singapore Asso...
21 Sep, 2020, 08.39 AM IST
Singapore-developed COVID-19 vaccine injected into first group of volunteersCalled Lunar-Cov19, the vaccine is developed by Duke-NUS Medical School and American pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics. Arcturus...
13 Aug, 2020, 04.13 PM IST