SINGAPORE – A patient caught up in the fake Covid-19 vaccine scheme testified in court on Feb 25 that she had visited a clinic to receive a shot of Sinopharm, but had no clue what was in the syringe.
Prosecution witness Mehrajunnisha Mrs Quaide Millath said during cross-examination that she learnt she had received a saline jab instead of Sinopharm only after she was interviewed by investigators from the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Madam Mehrajunnisha, who was working as a Tamil language teacher in 2022, said she had contacted then clinic assistant Thomas Chua Cheng Soon after her employer rejected her vaccine exemption note.
She had reservations after her cardiologist told her she had a weak heart and advised her not to take the mRNA vaccines.
Madam Mehrajunnisha said she was informed by her employers that she had to get vaccinated by Jan 15, 2022, or she would not be able to work.
“When (the exemption memo) was rejected, I thought I should go ahead and take Sinopharm because I didn’t want to be absent from work.
“After the memo was rejected, I had no choice. I couldn’t find a clinic that provided Sinopharm, so I thought Thomas could provide the service,” she said, without giving details of how she knew Chua.
Chua, 43; Healing the Divide founder Iris Koh Hsiao Pei, 49; and suspended doctor Jipson Quah, 37, are facing charges over allegedly conspiring to falsely inform the Health Promotion Board that
patients had received Covid-19 vaccinations, when they had not
.
Madam Mehrajunnisha said Chua arranged to meet her several days before the jab, where she said he told her that there was an option to be “vaccinated but not vaccinated”.
She understood his words to mean that there was an option to take a fake vaccine, but admitted that she did not clarify as she was anxious about meeting the vaccination deadline.
