As travel restrictions prevail, a petition has popped up on Change.org urging the Singapore government to allow vaccinated individuals from India to enter the country.
The petition, titled “Ease Travel Restrictions for Vaccinated ‘Indian’ with Singapore“, has garnered over 4,300 signatures at the time of writing.
Specifically, the petition seeks to have Indian travellers with valid work, student, or dependent visas or holders of other passes to be allowed to enter Singapore if they can provide a government-issued vaccination certificate on the Indian government’s end.
“Singapore has continued to (tighten) the border restrictions which have severely affected many Indian (travellers) in multiple ways.
“The renewal of work permits and other passes are at risk, in some cases, they were cancelled. Students are unable to resume education and [pose] huge uncertainty in their progression.
“Working from India is disallowed by SG-based companies, which directly affects livelihood (salary cut) of stranded Indians, which in turn negatively impacts our lives and family,” the petition read.
The situation in India, the petition claimed, has “improved a lot” as new daily COVID-19 cases have been “significantly reduced” recently, coupled with the “accelerating” drive to vaccinate the population.
“While we perfectly understand the SG situation and respect their protocols, we would also like them to know what we are going through tough times, so that at least some of the issues could be remotely resolved if not all, until the situation gets better,” the petition said.
In April, the COVID-19 pandemic started to spiral out of control as the country faced a new wave of infections, with new cases being reported at over 300,000 each day.
The worsening situation in India had prompted the Singapore government to announce in April an entry ban on all non-citizen and non-permanent residents inbound travellers who have been to India.
This includes those who had…