According to the Ministry of Health media release, there are another 328 COVID-19 patients discharged. This is the highest number of patients discharged from hospital and community care facilities in a single day which bring the total number of patient discharged due to COVID-19 to 2040.
However, with the number of discharged patients increasing, five new clusters were found across the island as of 08 May 2020.
BreadTalk Group is placing more than 3800 Singaporeans on varying degrees of no pay leave to enable the company to keep afloat.
A circular sent by CEO, George Quek, stated that the company may be forced to downsize if the situation continues to persist. Revenues have dropped by 90 percent since the crisis started.
BreadTalk’s financial statements showed a net loss of $8.1 million lost in the last quarter of 2019 compared with a net profit of $8.9 million a year before. They also reported a net loss of $5.2 million for the year of 2019 compared to a net profit or $15.2 million in 2018.
Middle and senior management staff from China, Hong Kong, Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries were affected by paycuts ranging from 30-50 percent.
A local employee stated that staff were not informed about the no pay leave arrangements and were given around 15 days to clear 10 days of no pay leave in June. Malaysian employees who are under the employment of BreadTalk group are heavily affected as they do not qualify for any financial aid from the Government during this trying period.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies in Singapore have started to practice the work from home measures advised by the government. This measure is introduced to help the spreading of the latest virus.
Lesser people are seen out on the streets and people working in the offices have reduced as well. This has caused the business of private hired drivers to drop dramatically. Some had even resorted to paying for car park fees in order to increase their chances of getting a customer.
This story was shared by a FB user Minyang Chow. He is a staff working at TTSH. In his post, he mentioned that he noticed a new trend for private hired cars to arrive at his location within 20 to 30 seconds.
Out of his curiosity, he asked the driver why is it so?
The driver answer to him:
” He had been sitting in the expensive TTSH car park for more than 30 minutes, waiting for a passenger. “If not, how can I get a passenger? I have to be the nearest to the passenger to get the job mah. The nearest place to you all is the parking lot lah! You never notice meh. This whole carpark all Grab driver waiting leh. They go Kopitiam da bao eat in the car and wait!”
The Full Post:
For the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a strange phenomenon when heading back from work. At the end of my day, I normally book a Grab from work. These few weeks, I’ve noticed that my Grab arrives in no more than 20 seconds. Today, I had the energy to discover why.
Uncle picked me up today and shamefully, for the first time in a long while, I had the energy to chat with him, particularly because I was curious why Grab cars arrive so fast. Uncle explained that he had been sitting in the expensive TTSH car park for more than 30 minutes, waiting for a passenger. “If not, how can I get a passenger? I have to be the nearest to the passenger to get the job mah. Nearest place to you all is parking lot lah! You never notice meh. This whole carpark all Grab driver waiting leh. They go Kopitiam da bao eat in the car and wait!”
Beep. His car IU sounded as he stopped at the parking gantry. I was stunned at the price he paid for parking. “小弟. This one nothing. I no customer already. Pay abit of parking, got passenger, I happy already.”
And so we began to talk. And I heard the grief he had. “Today my son birthday. But bo pian need to work. No customer also need to drive and pray got customer. I need to pay petrol, season parking, car rental. I can go hungry but I don’t want my family to go hungry”
Uncle dropped me off at my block. “小弟you be careful ar. Don’t kenna coronavirus ar. You work work work also must take care of yourself”.
I tipped Uncle after my ride ended with a message to buy something nice for his son’s birthday. I don’t think it helped a lot, but I hope it did brighten his day.
For every Grab driver like Uncle, there are many more like him. Everyone’s hurting in this period. Let’s open our eyes, go the extra mile, love a little more because we’re all in this together.
According to a Facebook post published by Chained Dog Awareness In Singapore, they posted a video of a man throwing puppies into the drain.
This is that they said on Facebook:
Urgent help needed!!!
Someone just sent this video and said the friend’s father witnessed a man throwing 4-5 pups into a drain near upper pierce.
The information is very sketchy at the moment. We are sorry we don’t have much details but these pups could be racing against time to survive. Can we ask that the public can help to comb this area to look for them.
Please do not write unnecessary comments on the thread! Only for people who can help n needs info so they can can make good use of the comments please.
We are alerting AVS now.
They later added a comment
Please we begged you guys to go to the site to look for the pups now. Video provided at 11am. Unfortunately we are not able to be there but we have alerted AVS and have a small group chat with the person who sent us the video and will also see who we can activate in terms of resources. Whatever info she have provided is all in the comment thread. Pls try your best to see if you can find the pups.
As days and weeks go by in the circuit breaker, it can be quite worrying that we see workers working in Healthcare Sector getting infected.
As they are our frontline defences against the virus.
On 8 May, MOH announced a case from the healthcare sector working in a nursing home.
Details:
Case 21161
Case 21161 is a 34-year-old female Filipino national who is a Singapore Work Pass holder and has no recent travel history to affected countries or regions. She was tested for COVID-19 as part of MOH’s additional precautionary measures for nursing home staff, and was confirmed to have COVID-19 infection on 7 May. She is currently warded at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases.
Prior to hospital admission, she had gone to work as a Resident Care Associate at Ren Ci @ Ang Mo Kio (Nursing Home).
The Police were alerted after the neighbours started to smell something rotting
The body was found by the Police on the 7 May 2020 at around 1.50 PM, the body of a 60-year-old woman was found at Block 704, Yishun Avenue 5.
The Police found the body and pronounced dead at the scene, the woman had died for around 5 days.
Woman in her thirties stayed with decomposing body for 5 days
The media reported that the daughter who is in her 30s was intellectually disabled, she had been staying at home with the body and she does not know how to report to the Police.
She was also afraid to leave the house, According to Lianhe Wanbao, the neighbour told the reporter that the daughter probably did not know that her mother had passed away.
The Police has classified the incident as an unnatural death case.
The woman was named the “2nd sovereign” in Singapore by netizens has been arrested.
The 40-year-old Singaporean woman was arrested by the police for
deliberately injuring and preventing a female police officer from performing official duties insulting two shopping mall staff
destroying her IC cards
refusing to wear a mask.
The police issued a statement tonight (May 8) that at about 2:10 pm yesterday, the police were alerted to assist in a woman who was a nuisance in public at Sun Plaza, Sembawang.
Initial investigations revealed that at around 2 pm yesterday,Sun Plaza staff found out that the woman did not wear a mask when she entered the mall.
The woman even insulted the store staff and a security guard who came to assist with the situation.
When the police asked the woman to identify herself, the woman began to tear off the address sticker on the ID card. At this time, a police officer tried to stop, the woman actually acted violently to the police officer, and still did not cooperate, and was subsequently arrested by the police.
A recent warning video was released by the Bedok South Neighbourhood Police Centre to warn the members of the public for the ongoing credit-for-sex scams and exposing the tactics used by the scammers to create public awareness.
In 2019 alone, an estimated $2.8 million was lost to these scammers.
In the video, the police explained that sexy photo of young ladies is commonly used to attract victims. Text messages from the scammers are featured in the video published.
Credit Singapore Police Force
Text Reading:
” I am currently a student working part-time providing sexual services. Cost as follows $100 for 2 hours and $300 overnight. I am free today. To you want to meet?”
Credit Singapore Police Force
Scammers will continue to start a conversation when they feel that you are their potential victim. As shown in the video, scammers will provide a place for a meetup and ask for the victim’s contact details.
Credit Singapore Police Force
As a way for her “Manager” to safeguard her personal safety. As the victim is not introduced by her regular customers.
Credit Singapore Police Force
The victims were told to transfer the money via AXS machines over the phone. The girl’s “Manager” will pressure the victims to transfer the money if they didn’t.
When the victim said no the scammer turned violent and threatens to harm the family of the victims. The scammer claims that they able to find victims home’s address.
Credit Singapore Police Force
These scams are still happening during the circuit breaker period. The police advise the members of the public not to give in to the scammers when such an incident happens.
Earlier today, Lawrence Wong said that all activities will not resume immediately even after 1st June.
He said:
“We will continue to monitor assess and the situation in thinking about what to do post 1st June whatever the decision of whatever happens in the coming days or weeks it is clearly not going to be the case that after 1st of June everything will be fine and we will go back to status quo. “
That is clearly not going to happen to all of us
“We will continue to monitor and have gradual calibrated easing and exactly how much, I have to see depending on the assessment of the situation in the coming days and weeks and as we’ve assessed that and ready we will let you know more details about how you can about the exact nature of the restrictions for the easy one can expect me to buy in the meantime let us continue to hunker down and do everything we can to stay home minimize I’ll contact with others.”
Looks like Singapore residents will have to make do with whatever that is open to us and respect the rules that are implemented during the pandemic.
He mentioned not to rush out and cut hair on the 12th of May
According to a Facebook post published by Victoria sin, she exposed her ex-boyfriend’s dirty deeds and he cheated on her.
The following is her Facebook post
Wronged and cheated. We have been dating for 5 years, and we have just broken up 3 weeks ago. In this long and dreadful 3 weeks, time has basically stopped for me, but he has already gotten himself a new girlfriend during the circuit breaker period. 5 years and he cheated 3 times.
I believe this has been ongoing for some time just that I wasn’t aware that he was using dating apps to chat with girls and meet them during this circuit breaker period as if he was single. 渣男 After I found out that he cheated, he does not even dare to stand up for himself to explain to myself and my family members. He blocked my family members and friends on all social media platforms.
Stole Fathers Money
When we first got together, you have stolen my father’s and my money. We forgave you. You lied about your family background, saying that you don’t get along with your parents and your mother passed away. So, my father rented a room for you to stay at my house and treated you like his own son. We bought you meals every day worrying that hungry after work. When you’re broke, I’ll pay for your meals even after all the things you did to me, I trusted you and stood by your side when everyone was telling me to give up on you. I believed that you will change for the better but you disappointed me every single time.
what do the 5 years we had meant to you? To me, I had wasted my youth for waited for you to serve your mandatory national service and another 3 years of trying my best to guide to you a better path for a future with you. A future with you I wish I had not dreamt off.
To you who cheated: “If you cheat on someone that is willing to do anything for you, you actually cheated yourself of true loyalty”.
The whole sole purpose of this post is to make sure no one goes through whatever I went through with you. Good luck to you and the girls you are cheating on as well.
