Woman in Singapore Jailed After Lying to Coronavirus Contact Tracers

Woman in Singapore Lying to Contact Tracers for Coronavirus Arrested

SINGAPORE- Singaporean woman was arrested and jailed for 5 months after lying to contact tracers for coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

A 65-year-old woman was sentenced to six months in prison after being arrested for lying to the contact tracers as she hides her meetings with a male friend not make her family thinks that she was having an affair.

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According to the report of Manila Bulletin, Oh Bee Hiok met a close friend, Lim Kiang Hong, 72, five times in the weeks before testing positive for COVID-19 in February. However, she deliberately withheld the information from the health ministry’s contact tracers.

“She did not want her family or Lim’s family to find out that they were going out so frequently, as she thought that their family and friends would suspect that they were in a romantic relationship and spread rumors about them being in an extra-marital affair,” court documents said.

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Officials learned about the meetings after checking parking records, CCTV footage, call logs and credit card transactions. After she was admitted to the hospital with a coronavirus, Oh spoke to Lim on the phone and asked him to their outings secretly.

He then tested positive for Covid-19 in March., Judge Marvin Bay said in sentencing Oh, her reasons for storing information were selfish within the compelling public interest need to control amid the pandemic.

Oh pleaded guilty to charges of obstruction in contact tracking efforts. The maximum penalty is a fine of Sg $ 10,000 ($ 7,500), six months’ imprisonment, or both.

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