Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble: early July review set for quarantine-free scheme amid coronavirus pandemic


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The highly-anticipated travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will be reviewed in early July, pending an announcement on its launch. Hong Kong commerce chief Edward Yau Tang-wah had been regularly in touch with his counterpart in the city state, a government spokesman said on Thursday, adding that both administrations were closely monitoring the Covid-19 situation. “Both sides consider it to be prudent to keep the developments under review to ensure the epidemic situation is sufficiently stable before deciding in early July on the way forward for the air travel bubble,” the spokesman said. The quarantine-free travel arrangement was initially...