Denmark will impose self-isolation requirements on travellers from Singapore, its embassy in the city-state said on Thursday, following a surge in COVID-19 infections.
Singapore was removed this week from a European Union list of non-EU countries for which travel restrictions should be lifted.
The EU's safe list of countries is reviewed every two weeks and is not legally binding on member nations. Last month, the United States advised citizens against travel to Singapore, raising the alert level to its highest.But most of its recent new cases are asymptomatic or mild, with 85% of the 5.45 million population vaccinated. Ashows that its average daily infections are at 75% of the peak. Singapore had kept the infection numbers very low through most of last year and early this year.
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