A fire occurred in Woodlands yesterday at about 1.25 pm yesterday (7 Feb) at Woodlands Drive 75 Blk 688F.

Upon SCDF’s arrival, the fire was raging in the bedroom of a unit on the 14th floor.

Firefighters conducted forcible entry into the unit and extinguished the fire with one water jet. 50 people from nearby neighbouring units were evacuated as a precautionary measure. There were no reported injuries.

Evacuated

Around 50 people were evacuated from the unit, the raging fire burned the unit to a crisp.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The yearly agenda of buying TOTO during Chinese New Year is the most often highlight of many in the year.

Initially 12 million dollars

Due to 2 consecutive draws of no winners, the prize pool of $12 million has become $16 million.

The draw for $16,000,000 will be held on this Friday, 11 September 2022 at 9.30 PM

Lucky outlets and statistics

• NTUC Fairprice Serangoon Central Hypermarket

12 Group 1 winners, 46 Group 2 winners and 58 Group 3 winners.

• Delisia Agency Pte Ltd

12 Group 1 winners, 60 Group 2 winners and 72 Group 3 winners.

• Tong Aik Huat

11 Group 1 winners, 76 Group 2 winners and 87 Group 3 winners.

How to play

To play Toto, a punter will have to choose at least six numbers between 1 to 49, and place a minimum bet of S$1 which is inclusive of GST.

Every Monday and Thursday at 6:30pm, the draw will take place.

The draw sometimes takes place at 9:30pm, when the Toto draw is a special draw or a cascade draw.

6 winning numbers plus an additional 1 will be drawn, and will form the winning set of numbers.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has reported a total of 7,806 new cases on 7th February 2022 with 3 fatalities.

7,629 are local and 177 are imported cases.

The weekly growth rate is up to 1.52 (Yesterday was 1.49)

Case details

Of the 7,806 new cases, 5,310 cases are tested positive through ART of which 5,288 are local and 22 are imported.

2,496 cases were confirmed after testing with PCR with 2,341 local cases and 155 imported cases.

MOH reported 3 death cases bringing to death toll to 874.

Other data:

There are currently 1,165 patients in the hospital with 109 of them requiring oxygen and 26 are in the ICU.

92% of Singapore’s population has completed the vaccination program.

60% of Singapore’s population has received booster shots.

Statistics

In total Singapore has recorded 405,629 COVID-19 cases from the start of the coronavirus.

The death toll is 874.

In the last 28 days, there were 109,25 amount of cases with 99.7% of them with no or mild symptoms, 0.3% required oxygen supplementation, 0.04% is in the ICU, 0.02% died.

A woman was fined after she had a party with 14 others at her office unit for Chinese New Year last year.

34-year-old Lin XiaoFeng was fined SGD$3,000 earlier today after pleading guilty of breaking COVID-19 rules which she gathered in a group of more than 8. During that time, the maximum group size was 8 pax.

Who are those that were involved

• 32-year-old Chua Li Jin
• 31-year-old Low Xiang Hua
• 31-year-old Ethan Tan
• 39-year-old Ong Hui Siong

The group sang karaoke and drink alcohol on Feb 24, 2021, till late at night. At 2 am the Police received a call that an office located at 1 Pemimpin Drive was having some activities.

Police who arrived on the scene could hear the loud music when there were outside, When officers enter the premises, they noted that none of the participants was partying and playing games.

Ong was given a fine of SGD$12,000 as he was the tenant of the office space.

The 13 others received similar fines as Lin.

Penalties:

First-time offenders who breach safe distancing measures are fined $300.

For non-compliance with safe management measures under the COVID-19 offenders may be jailed for up to six months, fined up to S$10,000, or both.

For those tha are caught by the Police for not wearing a mask or not wearing a mask properly they can be charged under the Covid-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations 2020.

Penalties include a fine of up to SGD$10,000 and jailed for up to six months.

Taiwan which has a strict zero COVID-19 policy has recently changed its strategies to opening its borders for migrant workers. Taiwan’s Central Epidemic Command Center(CECC) said earlier today (Feb 7) that they will be allowing migrant workers from the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand to enter the country.

Head of CECC, Chen Shih-Chung stated that the conditions to enter the country as a worker includes

• Full vaccination, uploading the certs to Ministry of Labor
• Employers to arrange 14 days quarantine
• First come first serve basis based on those who get their visas earlier

How about regular travellers?

This comes as great news as many believes that it is a step closer to reopening its borders to regular travellers.

Recently, the Singapore Trade Office In Taipei stated that the European Commission will recognize Singapore and Taiwan’s digital COVID-19 vaccination and test certificates.

Stating that both countries will both Singapore and Taiwan will recognize each other countries vaccine certificates and it is a step towards easing border measures.

However, many travellers indicated that travellers from Taiwan to Singapore are only required to be vaccinated and are able to enter Singapore freely but not the other way round.

Holiday in Taiwan?

Experts believed that as Taiwan slowly opens up regular tourist travellers will be allowed to.

But most believe it is not anytime soon.

According to a court hearing, a man used stolen credit card details he found on Telegram and used it to book Taxi rides and order burger king.

32-year-old Muhammad Syawal Kamis was jailed 6 months 1 week after pleading guilty of cheating.

What Happen?

According to CNA, the man joined a Telegram group that contains details of stolen credit card information, he used the details of a credit card which is from the Bank of Oklahoma to register to his ComfortDelGro account.

After obtaining the details he used the credit card and tied it to his Burger King online and use it 7 times to order food amounting to SGD$225.40.

He also used the credit card to buy carton boxes worth SGD$26.

In a span of one month, he used the Taxi account to book taxi services 34 times until the card was rejected. A total of SGD$562.91 was reported as fraudulent transactions.

Reoffender

The court heard that the man was sentenced to jail back in 2003 for criminal breach of trust and theft.

The last time he was in jail was in November 2018 for cheating.

Syawal pleaded for a shorter sentence saying that he is the sole breadwinner of the family and he has a wife and daughter in Indonesia to feed.

He said in court: “I know my freedom is very difficult for me to achieve, I would continue from where I’ve started, where I’ve been with my wife and my daughter. Please give me a (lenient) punishment this time,”