VTL-land: Govt plans to increase daily quota to 2,100 travellers each way

Published on 16 Dec 2021 2:40:21 PM

The government plans to increase the daily quota for Malaysian and Singapore citizens travelling through the Vaccinated Travel Lane-Land (VTL-Land) facility to 2,100 people each way according to the development in the Covid-19 situation.

International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali said this when responding to a supplementary question from Senator Datuk Jefridin Atan in Dewan Negara on whether the government plans to consider imposing quarantine order on VTL-Land travellers as a precautionary measure to prevent the entry of the Omicron Covid-19 variant on Thursday (Dec 16), adding that so far, no quarantine was required due to the high vaccination rate in both countries but the government was constantly monitoring the current health situation.

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