Singapore Opens up International Travel With Digital Apps

Singapore, as a nation that depends greatly on business, transit and visitors is eager to get past that hurdle and hopes a trial of the IATA Travel Pass will provide the data to reopen international travel.

Release time : 2021-04-15 10:25:24

source : Travel Daily Media

results with their own testing data to get a ballpark figure on risks for travellers known to be carrying genuine vaccination certificates or negative covid-19 test results.

With these travel passes, results are more trusted, which allows nations like Singapore greater peace of mind that the health status a traveller claims, is genuine. If vaccination status is not just believed to be real, but rather “known” to be real, it’s easier to resume travel as it was, just over a year ago.

Singapore’s Transport Minister, Ong Ye Kung also noted in parliament that the country is actively looking into mutual recognition agreements for vaccination certificates with other countries, according to Bloomberg.

For now, Singapore will rely on its newly built, huge business transit centre, which allows people to fly in and stay safe behind the glass to conduct essential business. Even rooms have been designed with safety measures for contactless food delivery. It’s a far cry from experiencing the joys of Singapore’s street food stalls firsthand, but it’s something.

The fact that Singapore will trial the IATA Travel Pass to verify results and monitor the impact of inbound visitors is promising but by no means indicative of an imminent reopening. Singapore hopes to establish testing regimes to replace quarantine with regional partners in the short term, including Australia and Hong Kong.

Singapore says it hopes to have all adults fully vaccinated by the end of 2021, and 45’s by summer and with the possible travel bubble that is being worked out with Australia, there is a glimmer of hope for us to go and eat a bowl of laksa or some chicken rice in this stunning Southeast Asian destination very soon, but probably only if you have been fully vaccinated or test negative to Covid and can digitally prove it.