Singapore will lift restrictions for all vaccinated travellers from next week, with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday hailing it as a "major milestone" in the aviation hub's efforts to live with Covid-19, report agencies.
The city-state is the latest Asian country to ease travel restrictions in a region that has generally been more reluctant to lift barriers than Europe and North America.
A gateway for many travellers arriving in the Asia-Pacific, Singapore had already started quarantine-free travel schemes with some countries in recent months.
From April 1, fully vaccinated adults and unvaccinated children will be allowed to enter the country without quarantining, as long as they take a pre-departure test, officials said.
Lee said Singapore had reached a "major milestone" in its efforts to live with the virus.
Meanwhile, the overall number of Covid cases has surged past 477 million as the pandemic enters into its third year.
According to Worldometers tally the total case count mounted to 477,109,587 while the death toll from the virus reached 6,130,230 Thursday evening.
More than 11.16 billion doses have been administered across 184 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 20 million doses a day.
The US has recorded 79,844,364 cases so far and 974,827 people have died from the virus in the country, the university data shows.
India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,012,749 on Wednesday, as 1,778 new cases were registered in 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry data.
Besides, 62 deaths from the pandemic were reported since Tuesday morning, taking the total death toll to 516,605.
Meanwhile, Brazil, which has been experiencing a new wave of cases since January last year, registered 29,738,362 cases as of Thursday, while its Covid death toll rose to 658,286.
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