An-Najah News - Singapore will make arriving travellers to wear an electronic monitoring device to ensure that they respect coronavirus quarantines as the country gradually reopens its borders, Local authority said .

Starting from August 11^th , the devices will be given to arriving travellers including citizens from a select group of countries who will be allowed to be isolated at home rather than at a state-appointed places.

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.

Any attempt to leave home or tamper with the device will trigger an alert to the authorities.

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.