{"id":9326,"date":"2021-01-17T01:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T01:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3118052\/singapore-tightens-travel-restrictions-curb-new"},"modified":"2021-01-17T01:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T01:45:38","slug":"singapore-tightens-travel-restrictions-to-prevent-new-coronavirus-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/singapore-tightens-travel-restrictions-to-prevent-new-coronavirus-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore tightens travel restrictions to prevent new coronavirus variants"},"content":{"rendered":"Singapore has tightened its border restrictions in response to new Covid-19 variants and the worsening global pandemic situation.All travellers, including Singapore citizens and permanent residents, will have to take a Covid-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test when they arrive in Singapore. This will take effect from 11.59pm on January 24, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Saturday.The stay-home notice requirements, including the PCR test at the end of the stay, will continue to be in\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3118052\/singapore-tightens-travel-restrictions-curb-new\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore has tightened its border restrictions in response to new Covid-19 variants and the worsening global pandemic situation.All travellers, including Singapore citizens and permanent residents, will have to take a Covid-19 Polymerase Chain Reactio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9327,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions\/9327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}