{"id":1416245,"date":"2022-04-02T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416245"},"modified":"2022-04-02T16:59:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T20:59:47","slug":"thousands-cross-reopened-singapore-malaysia-land-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-cross-reopened-singapore-malaysia-land-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Cross Reopened Singapore-Malaysia Land Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthousands-cross-reopened-singapore-malaysia-land-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The land border separating Singapore from Malaysia \u2014 one of the busiest in the world \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/amp\/global-economics\/hundreds-cross-world-s-busiest-link-as-singapore-fully-opens\">reopened<\/a>\u00a0to fully vaccinated travelers on Friday after a two-year-long closure due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg reported, noting the event prompted \u201cthousands\u201d of people to travel between the Southeast Asian nations earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 11,000 travelers passed through the checkpoints at Woodlands and Tuas as of 7 a.m. Friday [April 1],\u201d Bloomberg reported, citing a statement by Singapore\u2019s Immigration &#038; Checkpoints Authority.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cAt least 400,000 people are expected to cross the border within the first week of the full reopening,\u201d the news outlet paraphrased Onn Hafiz Ghaz, the chief minister of Malaysia\u2019s Johor state, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore-Malaysia land border saw traffic amounting to roughly 400,000 crossers each day before closing due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.\u00a0The causeway\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=73&#038;v=zVN1HxsaZrc&#038;feature=emb_logo\">reopening<\/a> on April 1 came after the Singaporean government in late March announced plans to drop all pandemic-related restrictions on travel across the frontier apart from a vaccination requirement. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysia Prime Minister Dato\u2019 Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mti.gov.sg\/Newsroom\/Press-Releases\/2022\/03\/Reopening-of-Land-Borders-between-Singapore-and-Malaysia-from-1-April-2022\">issued<\/a> a joint statement on March 24 confirming the border\u2019s reopening.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The notice read, in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All fully vaccinated travellers, and non-fully vaccinated children aged 12 and below, are permitted to enter Singapore without the need to undergo border health measures, such as testing and quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Fully vaccinated travellers and non-fully vaccinated children aged 12 and below will no longer be required to take a pre-departure test (PDT) and unsupervised self-administered Antigen Rapid Test (ART) after arriving in Singapore, nor serve a Stay-Home Notice (SHN). This applies to fully vaccinated Malaysian cargo delivery personnel as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt is the first time in about two years that people can travel freely between both countries by private transport without the need for testing or isolation,\u201d Singapore\u2019s CNA news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/singapore-malaysia-land-border-reopening-woodlands-causeway-second-link-2599911\">observed<\/a>\u00a0on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Malaysia, the atmosphere around Johor Bahru city was \u2026 lively, with many converging to wait for the arrival of family members,\u201d the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) reported of the scene on Malaysia\u2019s side of the causeway just before midnight on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShouts of \u2018welcome back\u2019 were heard from those gathered near the Johor Causeway as fireworks were let off in the background,\u201d Bernama detailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides the land crossing, Singapore also dropped most restrictions for all fully-vaccinated travelers arriving by air or sea. People can now arrive at the Changi Airport without having to quarantine or test on arrival,\u201d Bloomberg reported on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The land border separating Singapore from Malaysia \u2014 one of the busiest in the world \u2014 reopened\u00a0to fully vaccinated travelers on Friday after a two-year-long closure due to the Chinese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}