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SINGAPORE – Entry restrictions in four popular markets will be fully eased from Saturday (Sept. 12), although there will be a cap on the number of people allowed at any one time, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Thursday. .
The four wet markets are: Geylang Serai Market, Chong Pang Market in Block 104/105 Yishun Ring Road, the market in Block 20/21 Marsiling Lane and the one in Block 505 Jurong West Street 52.
With the easing, these markets will no longer have even and odd entry restrictions that currently allow people to visit only on alternate days on weekends, depending on the last digit of their ID card number.
Other measures will be maintained, such as the use of SafeEntry for contact tracing purposes and the 1m distance between users.
Since Aug. 13, when midweek restrictions were relaxed, the off-market queue situation has been manageable and under control, the NEA said.
Outside the markets, there were no or short to moderate queues observed during weekdays, mainly at Geylang Serai Market and Marsiling Lane Market.
The NEA has also seen a significant increase in average daily influx in all four markets during the week, ranging from 18 to 48 percent.
“This has brought more business to merchants while giving more flexibility to customers visiting these popular markets,” he said.
Weekend queues were observed to be virtually unchanged from what they were more than three weeks ago, with minimal deviation from the weekend crowd to weekdays.
The longest queues were observed at Geylang Serai Market, with more than 100 customers in line, and at Block 20/21 Marsiling Lane, with around 70 customers in line.
The other two markets saw no queues on weekends.
At the respective peak hours in the two busiest markets, it took about 20 minutes for a customer to enter the Geylang Serai market and 15 minutes to enter the Marsiling Lane market, which according to the NEA was evaluated as “a length of queue manageable. “
The entry restrictions were first implemented in all four markets on April 22.
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