Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview with BBC that Singapore would start reopening its borders as more countries ramp up their vaccination drives against Covid 19, hopefully by the end of the year.
At the moment, leisure travel has been banned; although business and official travel programmes have been put in place.
PM Lee said:
“I hope if that many countries can have substantial proportions of their populations vaccinated by later this year, we will be able to have the confidence and to have developed the systems to open up our international borders to travel safely again, hopefully by the end of this year or next year, the doors can start to open, if not earlier.”
PM Lee also added that the few local cases that Singapore is currently seeing means that the country can take time to persuade Singaporeans to take the vaccine, because some are hesitant due to the possible side effects.