School’s out and it’s holiday season again and that means lots of activities to think up for the children in June! Especially with no travel plans on the card, restrictions to adhere to, and you have excitable and hyperactive kiddos to entertain, the month-long period might seem daunting. But not to fret, there are lots to do during the June.
/ Posted on 31 May, 2021 13:12
With Singapore’s month-long Phase 2 Heightened Alert restrictions coinciding with the first two weeks of the June school holidays, which start today, the city-state’s most popular attractions are giving up hopes of welcoming increased visitorship from families with children.
The new measures require attractions to further reduce their operating capacity to 25 per cent – from 50 per cent previously– and limit group sizes to only two. Dining-in services at F&B venues are also suspended.
This rare white tiger, as well as many other residents of Wildlife Reserves Singapore parks, will have lonely days ahead as visitor capacity gets cut from 50 per cent to just 20 per cent from May 16 to June 13
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Since the onset of the pandemic, there have been a few accounts of animals in zoos contracting Covid-19 - from eight big cats at the Bronx Zoo in New York in April last year to the more recent case of eight Asiatic lions at Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad, India.
The Bronx Zoo case and various other information from around the world have helped Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which manages the Singapore Zoo, Night Safari, River Safari and Jurong Bird Park, formulate its strategy and come up with safety protocols here.
WRS chief life sciences officer, Dr Cheng Wen-Haur, told The New Paper: As a member of international zoo associations, we have regularly shared data on various diseases and techniques for prevention and treatment, even prior to Covid-19.