A British man and his Singaporean fiancée will be charged with breaking Coronavirus quarantine, the Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said on Friday.
According to the ICA, the British national was serving a “stay-home notice’’ at a hotel when he left his room without wearing a mask on three occasions on Sept. 21, 2020 in breach of the prescribed requirements.’’
The ICA said the third breach saw the man “with his Singaporean fiancée’’ in what the authority said was a willful breach of the rules.
The woman had booked a different room in the same hotel, the ICA said, but she was not under any virus-related restrictions.
The ICA statement provides contact information so members of the public can report information about anyone who fails to comply with the requirements.
Foreigners face potential penalties,“such as revoking, or shortening the validity of permits and passes to remain/work in Singapore,” according to the ICA.
Depending on their travel histories, most arrivals to Singapore must quarantine for either one or two weeks, with anyone who chooses not to stay at an officially-designated location have to wear an electronic tag for the duration of the stay-home notice.
Local media named the man as 52-year-old Skea Nigel, or Nigel Skea, and the woman as Agatha Maghesh Eyamalai, 39.(dpa/NAN)
