SINGAPORE: A couple accused of withholding information from health officers after one of them contracted COVID-19 contested the charges on Monday ...
after one of them contracted COVID-19 contested the charges on Monday , in the first such trial in relation to the pandemic.
He told the court through a Mandarin interpreter that he worked at the Singapore General Hospital and was tasked with asking all positive COVID-19 patients on their whereabouts before they were infected.Hu's COVID-19 positive results were first produced by SGH's laboratory, said Mr Yang, but it is not known where he contracted the disease.
"Yes, we would ask patients to try their best to recall and patients might not be able to recall all, but we will ask them to try," answered Mr Yang, adding that it"should be the case" for them to be"as exhaustive as possible". READ: China couple accused of obstructing COVID-19 containment work 'not averse' to pleading guilty: Lawyer
Despite this, he went for a walk in the surrounding area from 6pm to 7pm on Jan 24, Mr Yang recounted. On Jan 22, he allegedly travelled to Long Beach Seafood@Stevens in Stevens Road at 12.52pm, and went to Marina One Residences later that day at 3.37pm. Secondly, he said the charges against his client did not contain the exact words they spoke in Mandarin, comprising only a summary of what they allegedly said.
However, he said the relevant offences that both the accused are charged with are for conveying or deliberately withholding information from health officers from Jan 30 onwards.
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