COVID: Indoor sports facilities, IHLs, others to implement VDS from 1 Feb 2022
SINGAPORE — From 1 February 2022, all indoor sports facilities, Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs), and leisure guests in hotels, hostels and serviced apartments have to implement vaccination-differentiated safe management measures (VDS), the multi-ministerial taskforce on COVID-19 said on Tuesday (14 December).
Students in IHLs who are completing their full-time NITEC/Higher NITEC, diploma or degree programmes will be exempted from the VDS requirement when entering their respective educational institutions.
The announcement comes after the MTF previously said it would expand VDS to more settings and activities, including in all libraries under the National Library Board, and selected activities in community clubs or centres under People’s Association.
In addition, as previously announced, the concession for unvaccinated individuals to perform a pre-event test (PET) in lieu of being fully vaccinated would be removed from 1 January 2022.
Meanwhile, all events, regardless of size, must implement VDS from 1 February 2022 in order to proceed.
Currently, only events with over 50 attendees are required to implement VDS. “However, even smaller-sized events can spark transmission that can then spread to wider groups of people, especially in view of the Omicron variant,” the Ministry of Health said in a separate statement.
To minimise disruption to events which are already planned for, the authorities will remove the existing concession only in end-January 2022.
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