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Singapore convicts couple from China of Covid-19 contact tracing offences
- Chinese national Hu Jun tested positive for Covid-19 nine days after arriving in Singapore from Wuhan to spend Lunar New Year with his family
- He and his wife Shi Sha were found guilty of withholding information from the city state’s contact tracers and could now face imprisonment, a fine or both
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After a trial that spanned more than a year, a man from Wuhan and his wife were on Tuesday convicted of withholding information from Covid-19 contact tracers in Singapore.
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Chinese national Hu Jun, 40, tested positive for Covid-19 in January last year, nine days after arriving in the city state from Wuhan to spend Lunar New Year with his family. The Chinese city was then the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.
He did not tell a health officer that he had travelled while infectious to hotels, a restaurant and the Chinese embassy, among other places, and was found guilty under the Infectious Diseases Act of deliberately withholding information from contact tracers.
His wife, 36-year-old Shi Sha, was convicted of withholding information, giving false information and failing to respond fully and truthfully to a health officer.
Hu said in his defence that he was either unaware health officials wanted such information, could not recall the names of the places he visited or did not have enough time to respond.
He had travelled to Singapore a few times before but those were brief visits to tourist spots and he was unfamiliar with the country, he said.
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