Coronavirus: Singapore’s tourist ban aims to curb imported infections, ease health care pressure

Singapore’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic has earned it plaudits from experts around the world, but a recent spike in imported cases has threatened that success and prompted fresh travel curbs on tourists.Effective Tuesday, all short-term visitors will be banned from entering or transiting the city state, the government announced on Sunday, with travel restrictions also tightened for work pass holders and their dependents, with only those providing essential services, such as in…