Everyone, Regardless of Vaccination Status, is Allowed In-Person Visits to Hospitals & Residential Care Homes

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Chloe Tan
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With the widespread easing of COVID-19 measures, you’ll be able to visit your loved ones in hospitals and residential care homes regardless of vaccination status.

Here are all the changes, summarised for you.

In-Person Visits Allowed for Everyone

From 26 April, you can visit hospitals and residential care homes, regardless of the vaccination status of patients, residents and visitors.

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However, visits to residential care homes will be limited to one hour, so that all families have a chance to visit.

Visitors should also continue to schedule their visits with the homes in advance. Additionally, visits may also be temporarily suspended if a home is managing active COVID-19 cases.

This is a change from the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) earlier statement, where only fully vaccinated people or those medically ineligible for vaccinations are allowed to visit.

Guidelines to Follow While Visiting

MOH encourages all visitors to take an antigen rapid test (ART) before their visits. Please do not visit if you are feeling unwell.

Additionally, visitors must wear face masks with good filtration capability at all times. These masks include surgical masks or reusable masks that have multiple layers of fabric.

Please don’t eat or drink in the wards or residential homes, and don’t use the toilets designated for patients and residents.

Do also refrain from sitting on the beds of patients or visitors, and abide by hospital visiting hours.

Hospitals and residential care homes may also continue to enforce certain safe management measures, like visitor registration or limiting the visitors per patient to two at any given time.

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Venues like hospitals and homes have vulnerable individuals in them, who are at higher risk of serious illness if infected. It is thus necessary to take these steps to protect them from getting infected.

Hospitals are also seeing a higher non-COVID-19 workload than usual, so do continue to exercise social responsibility.

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