Singapore convicts Chinese couple of Covid-19 contact tracing offences


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After a trial that spanned more than a year, a man from Wuhan and his wife were on Tuesday convicted of withholding information from Covid-19 contact tracers in Singapore . Chinese national Hu Jun, 40, tested positive for Covid-19 in January last year, nine days after arriving in the city state from Wuhan to spend Lunar New Year with his family. The Chinese city was then the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. He did not tell a health officer that he had travelled while infectious to hotels, a restaurant and the Chinese embassy, among other places, and was found guilty...