First quarantine-free flight from Singapore lands in Australia on Sunday (Nov 21)


Retired bank employee Flora Chng (left) flew with her son Benedict Soh, a 27-year-old bank employee, to Australia to visit her daughter - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE/MELBOURNE, Nov 21 (The Straits Times/ANN): For the first time in almost two years, Flora Chng, 68, was able to book an air ticket to Australia to visit her daughter, a permanent resident in the land Down Under.

Plans for a trip there were disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic as Australia had been under lockdown and had opened its borders only to New Zealand.

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