Singapore-Hong Kong travel bubble: Additional COVID-19 test for passengers from Hong Kong, flights to go ahead on Sunday

SINGAPORE: Passengers arriving in Singapore under the Singapore-Hong Kong air travel bubble will now be required to take a COVID-19 test at Changi Airport, an additional measure following a surge of coronavirus cases in Hong Kong. The launch of the air travel bubble will go ahead as planned, said the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) in a media release on Saturday (Nov 21). The first designated flights will take off and land in the two cities as scheduled on Sunday. The additional requirement of a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is a “precautionary measure given the rise of COVID-19…