Even if the global health crisis drags on, It's created a safe bubble hotel where locals and short term visitors can talk meeting rooms in connect at Chang E.

R, divided by walls of glass.

Attend these communicate via speaker.

Documents can be passed back and forth, each time sterilized with UV light Robin, who is head off international policy and governance at investment company Temasek, which developed the facility.

It wasn't long before we realized that the pandemic was likely to have a very long tail and possibly lasting for years, so therefore it was a problem looking for solutions.

Bookings have just opened for the hotel, which will eventually offer 660 guest rooms.

Even the heiress, segregated guest and visitor areas are ventilated by different ducts.

On there will be a very strict testing regime.

Travelers will be tested before departure on arrival and regularly at the venue.

For all the complications.

Demand isn't just coming from business, but interestingly, we've also had enquiries from parents who have kids studying here in Singapore, whom they ever met for the entire year on.

But if you're doing some good to parents to relieve their anxiety, and I think we'll be doing something good as well, who can't say if the hotel will be hosting one high profile event?

The World Economic Forum is due to hold its much delayed annual meeting in the city in August.

Whether it will take place in the bubble hotel isn't yet confirmed.