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Like a bolt from the blue, a six-year-old was struck on the back by a falling piece of concrete in the toilet at home.

“The worst nightmare for me and esp my son [sic],” the boy’s mother Syasha wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday (May 19). “Happily playing with water end up, this. Concrete ceiling drop on his back. [sic]”

The attached photos showed a trickle of blood oozing down the child’s dust-covered back, while several large shards of concrete lay next to the toilet bowl. Meanwhile, a steel bar in her ceiling is visible amid a large area of exposed concrete.

The worst nightmare for me and esp my son. Happily playing with water end up, this. Concrete ceiling drop on his back.

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The Ministry of Health has preliminarily confirmed 570 new coronavirus cases in Singapore today (May 20). Most of the new cases are foreign workers living in the dormitories, with two cases being Singaporeans/Permanent Residents.

Further details will be provided later tonight.

A total of 29,364 cases have been reported in Singapore so far, with 10,365 cases discharged and 22 deaths.

For the latest updates on the coronavirus, visit here.

bryanlim@asiaone.com

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Humpday this week brought us three magnificent things — early morning showers, cool weather, and a ridiculous saga brewing in the local Twitterscape. 

Trending on the Twitter charts today (May 20) is an attempt to ‘cancel’ national broadsheet The Straits Times in a trending hashtag #straitstimesisoverparty. 

As it turned out, K-pop fans were just mad at The Straits Times for reporting a scandal that involved South Korean celebrities breaching social distancing rules. 

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A cyclist saved a toddler from certain death last Friday (May 15) when the child merrily rode his kickscooter into the middle of a busy three-lane road in Yishun. His feat was even captured in a nerve-racking dashcam video. 

Alas, it wasn’t all praises for the two-wheeled rescuer. 

When the footage got shared widely on Facebook, unenlightened netizens immediately assumed that the cyclist was an irresponsible father who barely managed to rescue his son from getting run down. 

Understandably, the clip posted on the Singapore Roads safety/Roads safety.SG Facebook page doesn’t show the full context of the incident. In the video, the cyclist is seen stopping right next to the toddler in the second lane, pulling the child to a stop as a truck whizzed past them. 

The man then swiftly picked up the child onto his shoulders and carted the boy and his kickscooter safely to the side of the road. 

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SINGAPORE – This year’s National Day Parade (NDP) will focus on allowing Singaporeans to celebrate in their homes, instead of at a central location like the floating platform at Marina Bay.

Unlike previous parades, Singapore’s 55th birthday bash – which features the theme Together, A Stronger Singapore – will see many parade segments moved to the heartland and streamed live over TV as well as Internet platforms, said the organising committee on Wednesday (May 20).

For the first time, traditional elements like the state flag flypast, F-15SG fighter jet aerial display, the Red Lions free-fall jump, and mobile column will take place in different locations around the island. These displays will also pay special tribute to front-line workers against Covid-19.

The Aug 9 celebrations this year will start with a nationwide broadcast of the Prime Minister’s National Day Message and a parade at the Padang reviewed by the President.

This will be accompanied by flag-raising ceremonies across Singapore during the singing of the national anthem. Vessels from the Singapore navy and various public agencies will participate in a maritime sail-past.

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Deciding what to eat for today but have no idea what to pick from the seemingly endless options?

Here are some places to consider in the North of Singapore that will deliver to your doorstep:

Feng Food

有沒有比臉大？Posted by Feng Food on Tuesday, 5 May 2020

What’s available:

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A foreign construction worker has expressed his gratitude towards his management and the Government for all that they have done for him and his colleagues while they were serving their Stay-Home Notice (SHN).

Stomp contributor Shawon said that he has spent the past two weeks at JTC Space @ Tuas, a medical post facility that houses foreign workers.

According to The Straits Times, JTC Space @ Tuas has a swab isolation facility where foreign workers are kept in isolation after being tested and while they await their results.

The facility has capacity for 150 workers, where 120 places are for those awaiting results.

Shawon, a 29-year-old Bangladeshi, said his SHN ended on Monday (May 18), at 11.59pm.

On the final day of his SHN, Shawon took to Facebook to recount his experience at JTC Space @ Tuas and shared his post with Stomp.

In his post, the Stomp contributor described the facility as a “wonderful living place” where everyone lived “happily”.

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The Singaporean set to head the United Nations agency overseeing intellectual property issues says his focus will be to “call out” unilateral behaviour as more countries display protectionist tendencies and the US-China feud deepens.

Daren Tang Heng Shim, 48, who was earlier this month appointed to the role after he beat China’s Wang Binying in a vote, said the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Wipo) would continue to be “neutral and professional” in its efforts to safeguard global intellectual property and patents.

He rejected the suggestion that his appointment – something the United States had lobbied for to push back against China’s efforts to gain influence in international bodies – would raise questions about his independence.

“The election results speak for themselves. It wasn’t a candidacy that was backed by one part of the world or a region,” Tang said, pointing to how the 55 votes he received against Wang’s 28 came from a mix of developed and developing countries.

“We made it clear that we are going to bring that Singapore ability to build bridges and that’s what’s needed at Wipo,” he told in an interview.

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SINGAPORE – Singapore’s circuit breaker will formally end on June 1, the multi-ministry task force on the Covid-19 outbreak announced on Tuesday (May 19), saying the economy would then be reopened gradually in three phases.

At a virtual press conference, the task force outlined the broad plan to transition Singapore in phases out of its period of stringent measures eventually into a new normal that will be remain until an effective vaccine or treatment for Covid-19 is developed. But the ministers stressed that reopening plans are not a return to life before Covid-19.

Health Minister Gan Kim Yong also noted that phases could be rolled back should the outbreak flare up again. He also said that a rise in number of cases is likely as Singapore reopens.

“As we begin to resume more activities, we do expect to see a rise in daily cases… If we can continue to keep the situation under control, then we can reopen progressively,” he said.

In the first phase, called “safe reopening”, more people will be allowed to return to their workplaces, with priority given to critical sectors and businesses that operate in settings with lower transmission risks.

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