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- Phoon Chiu Yoke is accused of walking within the ION Orchard shopping mall on Aug 16 this year without a face mask on
- Face mask wearing was only made optional in most indoor settings from Aug 29 onwards
- Phoon now faces a total of four charges, and is scheduled to return to court again on Oct 14
- She was previously convicted for nine charges of breaching Covid-19 rules
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SINGAPORE — A woman accused of failing to wear a face mask in public has been slapped with yet another charge on Friday (Oct 10) for committing the same offence, despite having been jailed in the past for refusing to don the mask.
According to court documents, Phoon Chiu Yoke, 55, is accused of walking within the ION Orchard shopping mall on Aug 16 this year without a face mask on for close to 15 minutes from around 11.50am.
Face mask wearing was only made optional in most indoor settings from Aug 29 onwards, less than two weeks after Phoon's latest alleged offence.
This brings the total number of pending charges against Phoon to four — after she was jailed in September last year for breaching the face mask rule and other offences.
Prior to Friday, she was handed two charges of failing to wear a face mask on Sept 7 this year. These two charges were for breaching the face mask rule twice at the Mandarin Gallery mall along Orchard Road on March 6, court documents stated.
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