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Singapore Airlines has started transporting UK passengers to New Zealand again, after Singapore softened its stance on the ban it imposed on UK travelers using the country as a transit point.
A spokesperson for Singapore Airlines said the company had received approval to carry passengers from London Heathrow Airport to Sydney and Auckland via Singapore.
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Singapore Airlines says it has approval for UK passengers to transit Singapore, but travelers must stay on the plane when it is on the ground.
As part of the deal, UK travelers would have to stay on their plane while on the ground in Singapore. The spokesman thought the first of the flights under the new rule was on Monday or Tuesday of this week.
Singapore Airline passengers traveling from the UK to Sydney or Auckland must test negative for Covid-19 within 72 hours of departure, and are separated from other passengers on the plane.
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Singapore was one of the countries that imposed a ban on UK travelers in early December after an increase in people in that country testing positive for a variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus identified in recent months.
New Zealand’s managed isolation and quarantine agency thought the new border restrictions could affect about 20 people per day who were booked to fly from the UK to New Zealand.
