Singapore: Jail for woman who broke Covid-19 law by going to funeral while on MC for acute respiratory infection

Today Singapore report

When a doctor told Rita Kantha Narayanan that she had to abide by a five-day medical certificate and get tested for Covid-19, she abruptly left the clinic and went to her friend’s funeral instead.

The former clinic assistant had already been nabbed for repeatedly stealing cough medicine from her old workplace.

On Tuesday (June 8), the 48-year-old Singaporean pleaded guilty to house breaking in order to commit theft, and another six weeks behind bars for exposing others to the risk of coronavirus infection. She was jailed for 10 months.

Five other similar charges, including theft, were taken into consideration for sentencing.

The court heard that in mid-2019, Rita began working as a clinic assistant at Everhealth Medical Centre in Hougang.

She was fired on June 24 last year because of her poor performance and the clinic having hired a full-time employee.

Two days later, in the wee hours of the morning, she took a private-hire car to the clinic to steal cough mixture for her own consumption. She had grown addicted to it when she began working there and had stolen cough mixture on several earlier occasions.

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