here<\/a>\u00a0for a daily briefing on how this global crisis is affecting\u00a0cities, technology, approaches to climate change, and the lives of vulnerable people.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nSINGAPORE, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Singapore will make some incoming travellers wear an electronic monitoring device to ensure that they comply with coronavirus quarantines as the city-state gradually reopens its borders, authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n
From August 11, the devices will be given to incoming travellers, including citizens and residents, from a select group of countries who will be allowed to isolate at home rather than at a state-appointed facility.<\/p>\n
Similar measures using electronic wristbands to track peoples’ movements during quarantine have been used in Hong Kong and South Korea.<\/p>\n
Travellers to Singapore are required to activate the device, which use GPS and Bluetooth signals, upon reaching their home and will receive notifications on the device which they must acknowledge.<\/p>\n
Any attempt to leave home or tamper with the device will trigger an alert to the authorities.<\/p>\n
Hong Kong in March introduced a scheme for incoming travellers to use a slim electronic wristband, similar to a tag worn by hospital patients, to enforce quarantines for arriving passengers. South Korea has also used such wristbands connected to smartphone apps for those who violate quarantine.<\/p>\n
Singapore, which has not given details on what the device will look like, said in a statement that it will not store any personal data and does not have any voice or video recording function.<\/p>\n
Those aged 12 and below will not have to wear the devices.<\/p>\n
The city-state, which is also planning to give all residents a wearable virus-tracing dongle, has tough punishments for breach of its quarantine and social distancing rules.<\/p>\n
Under the Infectious Diseases Act, punishments can be fines of up to S$10,000 ($7,272) or imprisonment of up to six months, or both. It has also revoked the work passes of foreigners who flouted the rules.<\/p>\n
Singapore has reported 52,825 coronavirus infections, mostly due to mass outbreaks in cramped migrant workers dormitories, but imported cases have been creeping up in recent days. ($1 = 1.3752 Singapore dollars) (Reporting by Aradhana Aravindan and John Geddie in Singapore Editing by Ed Davies)<\/p>\n
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