{"id":23541,"date":"2021-10-14T10:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23541"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:48:11","slug":"singapore-to-require-vaccinations-to-enter-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-to-require-vaccinations-to-enter-casinos","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to require vaccinations to enter casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa now require casino visitors to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore.- Casino operators in Singapore now\u00a0<strong>require visitors to be fully vaccinated\u00a0<\/strong>or to show results of a negative Covid-19 test to enter. <strong>Marina Bay Sands\u00a0<\/strong>said its policy would also cover The Shoppes and its hotels from October 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casino operator said <strong>97 per cent of its staff have been fully vaccinated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-to-ease-travel-restrictions-for-some-inbound-travellers\">Authorities<\/a>\u00a0in Singapore have recently announced\u00a0<strong>a shorter 10-day quarantine for travellers\u00a0<\/strong>coming from a list of \u201cCategory 3\u201d countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 10-day quarantine will apply for arrivals who have spent their last 14 days in Austria, Bahrain, Bhutan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Fiji, Greece, Iceland, the Republic of Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, the Maldives, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom or the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourists will be required to&nbsp;<strong>have a Covid-19 test when they arrive&nbsp;<\/strong>and another on their 10th day in the country. Visitors arriving from Category 2 countries, which include France, Finland, Italy, Japan, Portugal and Spain, will still have to undergo a 14-day quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marina Bay Sands renegotiates credit terms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/marina-bay-sands-renegotiates-credit-terms\">Marina Bay Sands<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>has announced that it has\u00a0<strong>renegotiated the terms on a credit agreement\u00a0<\/strong>with DBS Bank Limited for its expansion of Marina Bay Sands. The initial\u00a0<strong>SGD8.67bn (US$6.44bn at current rates)<\/strong>\u00a0was initially agreed in June 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its second-quarter report, the casino operator stated that as of June 30 2021, the available funds under the revolving loan were US$441m and SGD3.69bn under a Singapore delayed draw term facility \u201conly used for capital expenditures for&nbsp;<strong>the expansion project of Marina Bay Sands<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The renegotiation will allow it to push back the delivery of the Marina Bay Sands expansion construction schedule to March 31, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa now require casino visitors to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17624,"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 integrated resorts, including Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa, have implemented mandatory vaccination or negative COVID-19 test requirements for casino entry, with Marina Bay Sands extending this to its Shoppes and hotels. Concurrently, Marina Bay Sands has renegotiated credit terms with DBS Bank Limited for its SGD8.67bn expansion project, delaying the construction schedule completion to March 31, 2022, impacting its capital expenditure timeline.","focusai_entities":"Marina Bay Sands, Resorts World Sentosa, DBS Bank Limited","focusai_location":"Singapore, Austria, Bahrain, Bhutan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Fiji, Greece, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Maldives, Norway, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, France, Finland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8), marketing_crm (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Expansion Delay Impact","query":"What is the projected financial impact of the Marina Bay Sands expansion project's delay to March 2022 on its capital expenditure schedule and anticipated Return on Investment (ROI)?"},{"label":"GGR Forecast Adjustment","query":"How are the new mandatory vaccination and testing entry requirements expected to influence the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) forecasts for Singapore's integrated resorts in the next two fiscal quarters?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,158,16333],"tags":[23632,168,21162],"class_list":["post-23541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-marina-bay-sands","tag-resorts-world-sentosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23557,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23541\/revisions\/23557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}