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COVID-19: Singapore issues new mandatory mask rules

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Singapore’s new mandatory mask rules will be applicable from August 29. COVID-19 social mixing restrictions in Singapore will be removed and masks would no longer be required in indoor settings, except in a few places, as per a notification on August 24.

In addition to emergency ambulances and medical transport vehicles, mask wearing will continue to be required in all indoor hospital and polyclinic facilities including retail, food and beverage, common areas, and other facilities within, private primary and dental clinics, specialist facilities, TCM clinics, renal dialysis centres, clinical and radiological laboratories, day hospices, residential care homes1, COVID-19 care facilities, testing centres, and vaccination centres.

Beginning on August 29, mask use will no longer be necessary indoors, with the exception of places where vital services are provided in cramped, crowded spaces that are regularly frequented by the vulnerable.

People will still have to wear masks while travelling in trains (MRT and LRT) and public buses. They will have to wear masks at indoor public transport facilities such as boarding areas within bus interchanges and rain platforms.

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