KUALA LUMPUR: The sale of bus and flight tickets for the land and air Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) initiative between Malaysia and Singapore, which was quickly suspended on Dec 23, is reopened with quick impact on Friday (Jan 21), says Khairy Jamaluddin (pic).
The Health Minister, nonetheless, mentioned the quota for the bus and flight tickets had been decreased by 50 per cent from the present capability for land and air routes.
“However, passengers who’ve bought tickets for journey dates after Jan 20, 2022 earlier than the announcement on the suspension of the ticket gross sales was made, they’re allowed to proceed their journey utilizing the VTL initiative based on the quota set earlier,” he mentioned in an announcement right here on Friday.
According to Khairy, the choice to reopen the ticket gross sales for the 2 VTL initiatives was made following the consequence of a danger evaluation that was carried out primarily based on the present Covid-19 state of affairs in each international locations.
On Dec 23, Malaysia and Singapore quickly suspended the sale of air and land VTL tickets till Jan 20 following the menace of the Omicron Covid-19 variant.- Bernama
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