Originally Posted by
hdogan
WEF was supposed to happen in August. By August, the borders will reopen (well, by July, as is stands), and they're probably ramping up for higher capacity to be able to absorb all the delayed arrivals from May and June. There's a reason why so many hotels have given up being open to staycationers and guests (even before WEF was cancelled), and contracted with the government until at least September. The Milelion wrote a pretty good overview:
https://milelion.com/2021/05/19/whic...ly-facilities/
Two remarks:
1. I would not call this a "border reopening", but rather a potential, very limited easing of some of the draconian restrictions.
2. About the article: It's missing the numbers. All there seems to be is a deduction that an increase from 14 days to 21 days of quarantine will lead to a 50% increase in demand for SHN capacity. But the SHN statistics which are openly available do not appear to support this at all for the moment.
Last tab on the right shows a decline in SHN issued as well as people serving SHN