Singapore court jails foreign worker for breaking Covid laws in bid to fly to India | Singapore

Monday, 12 Jul 2021 01:29 PM MYT
Balachandran Parthiban leaving the State Courts on November 18, 2020. — TODAY pic
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SINGAPORE, July 12 — A 26-year-old foreign worker was sentenced to nine months’ jail on Monday (July 12) for trying to leave Singapore during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when he had been told to wait in hospital for the results of his swab test.
Balachandran Parthiban’s test came back positive for Covid-19 after he was picked up by the police at Changi Airport and escorted back to Singapore General Hospital (SGH).
The Indian national had taken public transport there, tried unsuccessfully to buy a ticket to India, and loitered at Terminal 1 for about four hours.

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