Authorities continue to ease restrictions in Singapore. Now casinos have been allowed to resume standing bets at table games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Singapore.- The government of Singapore has allowed casinos to resume taking standing bets at table games. Resorts World Sentosa<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Marina Bay Sands<\/strong>\u00a0have also been allowed to\u00a0increase guest capacity from 25 per cent to 50 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0of pre-pandemic levels at non-gaming attractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Singapore Tourism Board (STB)<\/strong>\u00a0said standing bets remain subject to safe management measures such as a 1-metre safe distance between individuals and a maximum of five people including seated and standing players, and the dealer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Casino operators will have to follow \u201cSG Clean\u201d requirements<\/strong> for good personal and environmental hygiene habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marina Bay Sands<\/a>\u00a0recently detected\u00a0new Covid-19 cases associated with a cluster of infections<\/strong>\u00a0at the casino venue. However, it reopened its doors after a two-week closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The casino operator said it had adhered to the highest safety, hygiene, and testing standards, often going beyond regulatory guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities in Singapore<\/a>\u00a0have announced\u00a0an easing of certain Covid-19 restrictions<\/strong>\u00a0for visitors. Under the new measures,\u00a0visitors will be divided into four categories based on their travel history<\/strong>\u00a0in the previous 21 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Category 1 will include\u00a0people coming from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, New Zealand and China<\/strong>. They will only be required to have a Covid-19 test and will not need to undergo a 14-day quarantine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities will also start testing a\u00a0quarantine-free travel corridor with Germany and Brunei\u00a0<\/strong>for fully vaccinated travellers from September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the case of\u00a0Hong Kong<\/a>, the measure won\u2019t be the same for visitors from Singapore who want to go there as the country has given up a potential\u00a0travel bubble with Singapore<\/a>. It has decided to\u00a0extend quarantine measures until March 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Authorities continue to ease restrictions in Singapore. Now casinos have been allowed to resume standing bets at table games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Singaporean authorities have eased COVID-19 restrictions, permitting casinos to resume standing bets at table games and increasing non-gaming attraction capacity to 50% for operators like Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands. 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