The Ministry of Transport (MOT), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministry of Manpower (MOM) released a joint statement yesterday (23 May).
They said that the family that is suspected to have started the Covid-19 cluster at Changi Airport’s Terminal 3 didn’t arrive from India.
They explained that this is because India has banned all international commercial services to and from Singapore since March 2020.
They also revealed that the only passenger flights operating between Singapore and India are the Vande Bharat flights, to repatriate stranded citizens, and that those flights only operate at Terminal 1.
They noted that at the moment, SIA is only operating cargo flights to India.
No other details about the family suspected to have started the cluster are available, other than they arrived on a flight from a “South Asian country”.
They also highlighted that all arriving passengers at the Changi Airport from India are subjected to 2 Covid-19 tests, which includes an Antigen Rapid Test and a Polymerase Chain Reaction Test; thereafter they will be escorted from their disembarkation to their transport to their respective stay-home-notice facilities for a 21-day quarantine.
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