On Tuesday (May 25),18 new community cases were announced including 3 students, a pre-schooler and a housekeeper at Sengkang General Hospital. 6 cases are currently unlinked.
These students are from Rulang Primary School, Westwood Secondary School, and Kranji Secondary School. The 6-year-old pre-schooler is from My First Skool at Block 211 Jurong East Street 21 according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).
The 15-year-old student from Westwood Secondary School is one of the unlinked cases, which last attended school on May 18.
There were 9 imported cases of Covid-19. All of them were placed under Stay Home Notice.
There are 3 cases that are from dormitories, which brings the total number of new cases to 30.
The Boeing 737 plane was chartered by a Madurai travel agent for a “joy ride”, and the guests were briefed on the Covid-19 guidelines to be adhered, telling them that the airline disallowed any activities to be performed on board the plane.
Many of the passengers left their seats to crowd around the couple.
Announcements calling for the passengers to be seated went on deaf ears.
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The Singapore Police said in a news release earlier today (26 May) that enforcement action will be taken against 25 massage parlours for not adhering to safe management measures.
23 people were also found not wearing masks during their massage sessions.
The parlous could be fined between $1,000 to $2,000 for their breaches.
Customers on the other hand may be fined $300 to $1,000 depending on the seriousness.
The police revealed that they conducted enforcement checks on some 850 massage parlours over the last 2 weeks.
A netizen wrote in to TODAY asking for the ban of smoking while walking, in light of the community outbreak of Covid-19.
The netizen asked why must smokers be accorded special privileges to do so, before addressing those who hold food/drinks with their masks down – she says that some of them could simply be pretending to eat or drink so that they can pull down their masks.
She also shared that smokers who light up on the move not only pollute the air with cigarette smoke but put others nearby at risk.
The Online Citizen’s video alleging inaccuracies in a police statement, was labelled by Minister of Law and Home Affairs, K Shanmugam, as “despicable” on 25 May.
His comments come in the wake of the police taking the unusual step of releasing body-worn camera footage of the incident to verify their account of alleged bullying of an old woman was was not wearing a mask.
Shanmugam said:
“So TOC, you go and interview her, this old lady, try and get her to say things.”
“I would say this is despicable, and how low people will stoop. Unethical, cynical. This whole exercise by TOC is quite malicious to attack the police.”
He also said that the authorities were considering if any action would be taken against TOC.
The police then posted a clarification about the incident, saying that the auntie appeared to be lost and they helped her to find her way home, even buying food for her as well because they were concerned that she might be hungry.
TOC then posted a YouTube video interviewing the old woman, who claimed that the police didn’t buy her food and chased her back.
TOC then challenged the police to released body-worn camera footage of the incident.
Shanmugam obliged
In response, Shanmugam said:
“I’ve asked police to release the clips from their body-worn camera, and you can see it, it’s clear. And once you see it, there can be no argument.”
“The body-worn camera shows that the police officer was helping the lady. He bought food for the lady, passed it on to her, and the clip also shows exactly what was said by the police officer.”
Old woman suffers from dementia
Shanmugam said that TOC’s actions were “quite malicious to attack the police, he added:
“The elderly woman’s daughter told the police she’s upset that the old lady has been taken advantage of by TOC to spin a story, because TOC had put a video of the lady saying, various things.”
“People who have dealt with people who have dementia will know that you can sometimes get them to say many things they will not remember what they had half an hour earlier.”
“TOC has done this to try and cast doubt on the police, to damage the trust that people have in the police, and is really a disservice to the thousands of police officers who have been fighting in the frontlines.”
“But I would say, keep your malice and venom to politics. They can deal with it. Don’t bring that toxicity to attack police officers, spare them. They are just doing their job.”
“As to whether any further action is to be taken, that’s a matter to be considered. It’s premature for me to comment.”