COVID-19 cluster linked to police K-9 unit grows to 7 cases after 8-year-old tests positive Toggle share menu
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Singapore Police Force s K-9 unit at Mowbray Road. (Photo: Try Sutrisno Foo)
19 Jan 2021 10:48PM (Updated:
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SINGAPORE: The COVID-19 cluster linked to a police K-9 unit has grown to seven cases, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Tuesday (Jan 19), after one more close contact tested positive.
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Case 59428 is an eight-year-old Singaporean student at Chua Chu Kang Primary School who had last gone to school on Jan 15.
He is the son of two previously confirmed cases, Cases 59365 and 59393, both linked to the K-9 unit cluster. He was placed on quarantine after being identified as a close contact of his father, who was confirmed to be infected on Jan 16.
She is the sole woman linked to the Orchard Towers murder in July 2019.
Siow turns 25 this year.
In total, Siow spent slightly more than 200 days behind bars.
How her jail sentence adds up
On Oct. 9, 2020, Siow was sentenced to five months’ jail on top of having already spent 107 days (roughly three-and-a-half months) in remand earlier after she was arrested and before she was formally charged and convicted.
Her 107-day stint in remand together with the additional five-month jail sentence handed out meant that Siow would have been put away for 8.5 months in total.
However, owing to Singapore s two-third remission system for ex-offenders, Siow only needed to serve slightly more than 200 days out of a total of her eight-and-a-half months sentence to fulfil the two-third sentence quota.