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21-day SHN will pick up virtually all cases from India: Experts
They say it is not yet necessary to ban flights or tighten guidelines on social gatherings
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Requiring all travellers from India to be isolated for 21 instead of 14 days will help strengthen Singapore's defences against a new double-mutant variant that appears to be more infectious, experts said.
But they added that it is not yet necessary to ban flights from India - as some countries have done - or tighten guidelines on social and other gatherings.
