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Cinemas, religious organisations to cut capacity to 100 people to avoid pre-event testing requirement
An attendee receives a nose swab as part of a COVID-19 antigen rapid test before a conference held by the Institute of Policy Studies at Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre in Singapore on Jan 25, 2021. (File photo: Reuters/Edgar Su)
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SINGAPORE: Cinema operators as well as mosques and at least two churches plan to limit the number of people at worship services and movie screenings to 100 attendees, in order to meet new COVID-19 requirements and avoid having to implement pre-event testing.
Scolded for eating openly
From the three-and-a-half-minute video, it appears that the woman was chiding the workers for eating what is presumably non-halal Chinese food in broad daylight during the fasting month.
Here s a gist of the conversation, which happened in a mixture of Malay and Bahasa Indonesia:
Singapore woman (SW): They re eating Chinese food. She said she works for a Chinese family so she can eat it. I say we re all Muslims. You see this one, you sit quietly before I call MUIS (Islamic Religious Council of Singapore). You are embarrassing Muslims. You wear the tudung, what is going on here? You ll answer [to God].
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6 mosques closed for deep cleaning, disinfection after visits by COVID-19 cases
Three of the mosques closed for deep cleaning and disinfection after being visited by COVID-19 cases. From left: Masjid Abdul Hamid Kampung Pasiran, Masjid Al-Iman and Masjid Yusof Ishak. (Screengrabs: Google Street View)
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SINGAPORE: Six mosques around Singapore have been closed for deep cleaning and disinfection after they were visited by people who tested positive for COVID-19, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) said on Thursday (Apr 29).
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