Wearing a mask to be optional from Aug 29, except on public transport and in healthcare facilities

SINGAPORE: From next Monday , people in Singapore will not be required to wear a mask except on public transport and in healthcare facilities, announced Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Wednesday .

Healthcare facilities, residential care homes and ambulances will keep their mask-wearing requirement. These include welfare and sheltered homes for the aged, as well as adult disability homes.

Experts have advised that the elderly and immuno-compromised should continue to wear masks in crowded indoor settings to reduce their risk of catching any respiratory infections, MOH added. The DORSCON framework, which gives an indication of the current disease situation, was raised to Orange on Feb 7, 2020, at the start of the pandemic.

"We seek the public's continued cooperation to comply with the revised SMMs in hospitals and residential care homes, so that we continue to keep patients and residents safe."

In Cinemas theaters is it optional or must to wear masks ? Just to clarify.

So what’s happening between now and 29th that’s so critical that we can’t just have immediate implementation of the freedom to not wear a mask?

Take the option whenever you're in a crowded situation, I say.

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Commentary: Low risk of getting COVID-19 from indoor places – even with masks offSingapore’s decision to make mask-wearing optional in most indoor settings in this phase of the COVID-19 pandemic is not arbitrary, says Duke-NUS Medical School’s Vincent Pang. Vincent Pang Junxiong is Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre for Outbreak Preparedness at Duke-NUS Medical School. People. Even if we wear mask or did not wear mask, INFECTION never stop. Vaccine also never STOP INFECTION. Kena means Kena. Stop talking about low risk or high risk. Mask cannot STOP viruses, Mask only good for stopping DROPLETS. Well I guess if at some point people are still stubbornly sticking on to their mask, they would probably have experts letting us know prolonged wearing of mask is not exactly healthy.
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