Malaysia's Health Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that ticket sales for both land and air VTLs would be frozen until Jan 20 next year, although vaccinated travellers who have already purchased tickets can still proceed with their journey under the special travel lane initiative.
Business organisations are also hoping Singapore will reconsider its decision to freeze all new VTL tickets. "Hopefully, Singapore could look at freezing sales of bus tickets for two weeks instead of a month as announced," said Mr Low. "Some of our members have started borrowing money from banks as their businesses have improved slightly since VTL-Land started last month," said Mr Hussein, who is of the opinion that the land VTL should continue as it is granted with strict restrictions while taking into account that 80.3 per cent of the population in Johor have been fully vaccinated. Around 87 per cent of Singapore's population is fully vaccinated.