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What It’s Like to Visit Singapore Right Now
The city-state’s hawker stalls and museums remain open. Here’s an insider’s take on what to expect when you get there.
Derek Wallbank is a senior editor based in Bloomberg’s Singapore bureau.
Singapore has been one of the safest places in the world to ride out the pandemic. Some 96% of the eligible population is now fully vaccinated, and hospitals here have never been overrun. But the trade hub and city-state of just under 5.5 million people is toeing a delicate line. Every time restrictions have eased in the past year, Covid cases have spiked, leaving Singapore with some of the strictest remaining public-health measures in the world.