Remember back in the days when the only COVID-19 cases were imported cases, and every single case has a background?

Those were good days when we could see our Tinder dates’ faces without being catfished. And those were the days when we didn’t know the severity of breaking any COVID-19 rules.

And it turns out that this is one of the defences implied by the very first few cases of COVID-19 who lied to MOH officers.

Background of the Infamous Couple

Lest you’ve forgotten, back in on 22 Jan 2020, Mr Hu Jun arrived in Singapore.

The very first case of COVID-19 was only announced on 23 January 2020, a day after Hu Jun landed on Singapore.

He later tested positive for COVID-19 on 31 Jan, but that didn’t end: he allegedly gave false information to a health officer about his whereabouts from 22 Jan to 29 Jan.

It was previously unknown when he had been to, but he’s said that he had been in a car to The [email protected], a condominium that his wife lives. According to him, he had stayed in the apartment on 22 January 2020, and had dinner with a friend that evening in the Orchard Rendezvous Hotel.

He had his symptoms the next day, but still went for a walk on 24 January 2020.

He then claimed that between 24 January to 29 January, he stayed in a friend’s empty house to isolate himself from his family members due to his fever.

What a noble guy.

And on 29 January, his wife drove him to Singapore General Hospital, and the rest is history.

Except that history is written by him and not by reality.

It turned out that on the day he arrived in Singapore, he had allegedly gone to Long Beach [email protected] in Stevens Road at 12.52pm, and went to Marina One Residences later that day at 3.37pm.

Marina One Residences is, well, a luxury condo in Marina Way.

But that’s not all.

On 24 January 2020, he is also accused of going to the Chinese embassy in Tanglin Road at 10am, and Ngee Ann City at 11:15am.

But wait; there’s more.

He then allegedly went to the Intercontinental Singapore Hotel that evening.

And of course there’s more.

On 28 January, a day before he was hospitalised, he’s also accused of making a trip to Studio M Hotel at 12:30pm.