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09-08-2021, 04:24 PM
As Singapore eases its strict rules on social gatherings starting on Tuesday (Aug 10), its population will begin living two divergent lives.
For the vaccinated, daily life will resume, allowing them to dine at restaurants and participate in indoor sports classes or large events.
Those who are not vaccinated - a much smaller group - will have to take Covid-19 tests for all such activities. Without these pre-event tests, they will have to limit themselves to dining in pairs at hawker centres or coffee shops, and keep to much smaller gatherings.
This approach is to protect the unvaccinated as the consequences of their contracting the virus can be much more severe, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Friday.
But the policy has proven contentious, with an online petition calling on the Government to drop such differentiated rules garnering more than 10,000 signatures since it was started two weeks ago.
Some members of the public have lambasted the rules as an act of discrimination, while others expressed discomfort with the way they had been communicated
https://tinyurl.com/789etyvh
For the vaccinated, daily life will resume, allowing them to dine at restaurants and participate in indoor sports classes or large events.
Those who are not vaccinated - a much smaller group - will have to take Covid-19 tests for all such activities. Without these pre-event tests, they will have to limit themselves to dining in pairs at hawker centres or coffee shops, and keep to much smaller gatherings.
This approach is to protect the unvaccinated as the consequences of their contracting the virus can be much more severe, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Friday.
But the policy has proven contentious, with an online petition calling on the Government to drop such differentiated rules garnering more than 10,000 signatures since it was started two weeks ago.
Some members of the public have lambasted the rules as an act of discrimination, while others expressed discomfort with the way they had been communicated
https://tinyurl.com/789etyvh
