As of 17 October 2021, 12pm, the Ministry of Health has detected a total of 3,058 new cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore.

Among the cases 2,454 in the community, 601 in the migrant worker dormitories and 3 imported cases.

9 passed away

9 more cases have passed away from complications due to COVID-19 infection.

Of these, 6 were male Singaporeans and 3 were female Singaporeans, aged between 57 and 100 years. Amongst them, 7 had been unvaccinated against COVID-19, and 2 had been vaccinated. 8 of them had various underlying medical conditions, while an unvaccinated case had no known medical conditions. 

Singapore’s death toll for covid-19 is at 233

Xu Yan was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and fined 300,000 yuan for his illegal gains.

Xu Yan’s behaviour has constituted the crime of extortion, But she voluntarily surrendered and truthfully explain the facts of the crime. So the court reduced the sentence from 13 years jail to 7 years.

The case reveals that at least 7 officials were involved, some of them holding high positions in various departments.

China’s media revealed that the girl originated from a poor background and shortly after becoming a Police she would sleep around to get benefits such as promotions and money.

After sleeping with the high ranking officials she blackmail them for money, The blackmail range from cash and houses.

The father of the woman said that she did not blackmail and claims that the public officials “played” his daughter,” It’s them who made the mistake,I can’t put all the blame on my daughter’s head.”

A famous blogger who goes by the name of sunwear posted a post that attracted attention from international media.

The blogger who was not happy with the services of thank decided to draw 5million yuan from the bank and make the staff count all of them.

The money was packed in luggage and the bank has since verified the story stating that they are investigating the customer services of the staff.

He also transfers 10s of millions to other banks.

The total amount he transferred and withdrawn from the bank was about 10milliion yuan (over 2 million Singapore dollars)

A netizen received calls from a foreign number with the photos of the Singapore Police Force.

Scammers out there will use all methods to cheat people out there.

Another netizen answered the call and said he received an unsolicited phone call from an unknown person impersonating a Police official.

The usual, “police is here, your under-investigation, pay up or u go to jail”

Educate yourself

For more information on scams, members of the public can visit www.scamalert.sg or call the Anti-Scam Hotline at 1800-722-6688. Anyone with information on such scams may call the Police Hotline at 1800-255-0000 or submit information online at www.police.gov.sg/iwitness.

All information will be kept strictly confidential.

The decomposing body of a 69-year-old elderly man was found after the rotting corpse emitted foul smells coming out of the unit, according to Shin Min Daily News.

The incident happened at Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre on 9 October at around 5.26pm.

A wholesaler at the market said that he smelled an odour at 11am on 9 October that found a smelly liquid flowing out from one of the units.

He informed the management but nothing was nothing so he then called the police when he came back from his delivery.

The police then arrived and moved the corpse.

The police said that the man had died of natural causes and he was found motionless.

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