SINGAPORE: Singapore will soon allow travellers fully vaccinated overseas to be eligible for vaccination-differentiated safety measures, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced on Thursday (Aug 19).
From 11.59pm on Friday, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will issue "tamper-proof" vaccination stickers to newly arrived travellers who were fully inoculated overseas.
These stickers will be affixed to the passports of the travellers.
To obtain this sticker, travellers must be vaccinated with vaccines under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergency use list, and produce an English-language vaccination certificate to ICA officers at immigration checkpoints when they arrive in Singapore.
These travellers will be eligible for vaccination-differentiated safe management measures if they produce their passport with the valid tamper-proof stickers, MOH said in its press release.
Currently, only Singaporeans, permanent residents and long-term pass holders with vaccination records in Singapore’s National Immunisation Registry are eligible for the differentiated safety rules. All other incoming travellers have to obtain a negative pre-event test by a MOH-approved test provider that is valid for 24 hours.
The announcement on Thursday will be applicable to travellers including Singapore citizens, permanent residents, long-term pass holders and short-term visit pass holders from all countries and regions.
In its press release, MOH also said that IT systems will be enhanced by September so that travellers, upon verification of their eligible vaccination status at entry, will also be recognised by SafeEntry (Business) App through their TraceTogether tokens or mobile apps to be eligible for vaccination-differentiated safe management measures without having to go through pre-event testing.
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From 11.59pm on Friday, the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will issue "tamper-proof" vaccination stickers to newly arrived travellers who were fully inoculated overseas.
These stickers will be affixed to the passports of the travellers.
To obtain this sticker, travellers must be vaccinated with vaccines under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) emergency use list, and produce an English-language vaccination certificate to ICA officers at immigration checkpoints when they arrive in Singapore.
These travellers will be eligible for vaccination-differentiated safe management measures if they produce their passport with the valid tamper-proof stickers, MOH said in its press release.
Currently, only Singaporeans, permanent residents and long-term pass holders with vaccination records in Singapore’s National Immunisation Registry are eligible for the differentiated safety rules. All other incoming travellers have to obtain a negative pre-event test by a MOH-approved test provider that is valid for 24 hours.
The announcement on Thursday will be applicable to travellers including Singapore citizens, permanent residents, long-term pass holders and short-term visit pass holders from all countries and regions.
In its press release, MOH also said that IT systems will be enhanced by September so that travellers, upon verification of their eligible vaccination status at entry, will also be recognised by SafeEntry (Business) App through their TraceTogether tokens or mobile apps to be eligible for vaccination-differentiated safe management measures without having to go through pre-event testing.
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