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SINGAPORE : A 26-year-old Indian national was sentenced to nine months’ jail on Monday for trying to leave Singapore during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when he had been asked to wait in a hospital for the results of his swab test.

Balachandran Parthiban’s test came positive for COVID-19 after he was picked up by the police at Changi Airport and escorted back to Singapore General Hospital (SGH).

He had taken public transport there, tried unsuccessfully to buy a ticket to India, and loitered at Terminal 1 of the Changi Airport for about four hours, reported TODAY newspaper.

Also Read: Singapore takes a different route than US, UK on covid reopening The foreign worker later breached an isolation order and went to the airport again

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