The new Omikron variant has also found its way into Singapore. For this reason, the city-state is withdrawing the recently announced easing and isolating itself again.
Singapore is also pulling the rip cord and stopping Vaccinated Travel Lane after the city and island state has registered the first Omikron cases. Accordingly, airlines are no longer allowed to sell new tickets on Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL), the travel corridor for vaccinated people, between December 23 and January 20. This ends the quarantine-free entry into the city-state for the time being. It is currently not yet clear when these trips can be resumed, as reported by CNBC. Experts around the world expect the new CoV variant to expand rapidly in the new year. A relief is provided for those travelers who have already purchased a ticket. This new regulation does not apply to flights to Singapore that have already been booked - these can take place as planned and without quarantine.