(MENAFN) Singapore intends to ease the regulations of the workplace as the nation witnesses a decrease in the number of Coronavirus cases, as it prepares the country for a potential “omicron wave.”

Around 50 percent of individuals who took two jabs and are still working from their houses will be given the permission to go back to the office starting January 1, stated the Ministry of Health said in a report on Tuesday. Nevertheless, assemblies in the workplace are banned.

The country’s regime reported, it would apply extra rules to set up a plan to cope with the outbreak of omicron in the population, as initial information on the fresh variant show that it is as infectious as the delta strain.

Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, who co-chairs a virus team, noted at a media briefing that “unfortunately, the pandemic is not ending soon,” adding “in some ways this is perhaps the calm before the next storm. So we do have to brace ourselves for the omicron wave.”

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