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Malaysia plans for safe border reopening, Singapore aims for quarantine-free travel

The National Recovery Council (NRC) of Malaysia has recommended that the health and home ministries begin talks to study and propose measures to the council for the immediate and safe reopening of the country’s borders.
Malaysia plans for safe border reopening, Singapore aims for quarantine-free travel ảnh 1A man wearing face mask in Kuala Lumpur. (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The National Recovery Council (NRC) of Malaysia hasrecommended that the health and home ministries begin talks to study andpropose measures to the council for the immediate and safe reopening of thecountry’s borders.

NRC chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said on January 10that the reopening of the country’s borders is one of the important measuresthat will support the country’s recovery process.

The reopening plan should include mechanisms to control thespread of new variants of SARS-CoV-2, he added.

Meanwhile, Singaporean Transport Minister S. Iswaran said onthe same day that the country is committed to steadily reopening its bordersand aims to set up more quarantine-free travel agreements.

Though the government had moved to place curbs on the VaccinatedTravel Lanes (VTLs) in response to the global Omicron variant wave, Iswaran assuredthe Parliament that quarantine-free travel will resume once it is assessed tobe safe to do so.

In fact, the goal is for Singapore to work towards havingquarantine-free travel for all vaccinated travellers, he added./.
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