Stricter Covid-19 testing for shore-based staff in Singapore's maritime sector

All the more than 20,000 shore-based personnel in Singapore will need to take a Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction test within the next seven days. - ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Shore-based staff in the maritime sector will now have to be tested for the coronavirus every seven days instead of 14 before they are allowed to board ships for work.

This is among the measures tightened for the testing of all shore-based staff going on board ships, in the light of two cases in which a marine surveyor and a harbour pilot tested positive for Covid-19, said the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) on Saturday (Jan 2).