Covid-19: Air travel bubble with Hong Kong to begin on Sunday as planned, says Singapore
The uncertainty surrounding the high-profile Hong Kong-Singapore air travel bubble has eased after Singapore’s civil aviation authority on Saturday announced that its planned travel bubble with the former British colony will commence on Sunday as planned, despite a surge in Hong Kong’s cornovarius disease (Covid-19) cases.
“Hong Kong has a comprehensive public health surveillance system and the overall incidence rate is still low,” the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said in a statement on Saturday, explaining why the travel bubble would proceed ahead as planned.
Hong Kong reported 45 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, its highest daily count in three months, a day after reporting 26 cases, of which 21 were local.
