{"id":28953,"date":"2021-02-26T17:56:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T08:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/briton-sentenced-to-two-weeks-in-jail-for-breaking-singapore-covid-rules"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T08:56:37","slug":"briton-sentenced-to-two-weeks-in-jail-for-breaking-singapore-covid-rules-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28953","title":{"rendered":"Briton sentenced to two weeks in jail for breaking Singapore Covid rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Skea, 52, from Southampton, flouted coronavirus quarantine order to visit fiancee<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A British man has been sentenced to two weeks in jail and fined just over \u00a3540 for breaking a coronavirus quarantine order in Singapore to visit his fiancee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/15\/british-man-admits-he-defied-singapore-covid-rules-to-visit-fiancee\">Nigel Skea<\/a>, 52, from Southampton, is the first Briton to be jailed for flouting coronavirus rules in the city-state. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/briton-sentenced-to-two-weeks-in-jail-for-breaking-singapore-covid-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Skea, 52, from Southampton, flouted coronavirus quarantine order to visit fianceeCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA British man has been sentenced to two weeks in jail and fined just over \u00a3540 for breaking a coronavirus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,914,783,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-singapore","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28956,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28953\/revisions\/28956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}