The checking of shoppers and diners’ vaccination statuses will no longer be required for retail shops, F&B establishments and lifestyle shops that are inside shopping malls.
However, vaccination status checks will still continue to be done at the entrances of shopping malls.
This comes after Singapore announced the easing and lifting of most Covid-related measures as Singapore gets ready to live with the coronavirus.
This move is expected to ease the load on the abovementioned establishments.
However, if the shops are operating outside the mall’s operating hours or have their own entrances into their shop that bypasses the malls’, they will have to still conduct checks.
Also, for unvaccinated children under 12, they are still allowed to enter the premises even if they are from a different household from the adults in their group.
MOH said:
In line with the increase in group size, groups of up to 10 fully vaccinated persons will be allowed to dine-in at F&B establishments, including hawker centres and coffee shops, where full vaccination-differentiated SMMs (VDS) checks have been implemented at their entrances.
To ease the operational burden for F&B operators, we will allow all F&B establishments to seat smaller groups of up to 5 fully vaccinated persons, without the need for full VDS checks at their entrance.
Instead, random spot-checks will be done to ensure that only vaccinated persons are dining-in at these places, and the onus will be on the dining-in individuals to abide by the rules.
This will make it easier for the F&B operators who face difficulties in cordoning off their venues and setting up discrete access control points especially hawker centres and coffee-shops.