India has banned all international commercial flights to and from Singapore since March last year. - ST
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The family that is suspected to have seeded the Covid-19 cluster at Changi Airport Terminal 3 did not arrive on a flight from India.
This is because India has banned all international commercial services to and from Singapore since March last year.
The only passenger flights now operating between the two countries are Vande Bharat (repatriation) flights that operate out of Terminal 1, said Singapore’s transport, foreign affairs and manpower ministries in a joint statement in response to media queries on Sunday (May 23).
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The family that is suspected to have seeded the Covid-19 cluster at Changi Airport Terminal 3 did not arrive on a flight from India.
This is because India has banned all international commercial services to and from Singapore since March last year.
The only passenger flights now operating between the two countries are Vande Bharat (repatriation) flights that operate out of Terminal 1, said Singapore s Transport, Foreign and Manpower ministries in a joint statement, in response to media queries yesterday.
These flights that carry passengers both ways are operated by Indian carriers designated by the Indian government, with the approval of the Singapore Government. At the moment, Singapore Airlines operates only cargo flights to India, the ministries noted.
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Segregation of departing and arriving passengers at Changi Airport, with a marker for Zone 1, on May 24, 2021. (Photo: Gwyneth Teo)
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SINGAPORE: Changi Airport workers will be segregated based on their COVID-19 exposure risk and only those who have been vaccinated will work in high-risk zones, the airport said on Monday (May 24).
The airport is an active COVID-19 cluster with 108 cases as of Sunday. A worker who assisted a family from South Asia last month could have been the infection source that led to 43 staff members contracting the virus, Changi Airport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said last Friday.
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