Senior government ministers in Singapore on Tuesday defended the use of data from the country’s Covid-19 contact-tracing programme in criminal investigations, saying it would be used only in cases involving “serious offences”. Police had used the information from the TraceTogether programme in just one investigation so far – a murder case, the ministers said. Ms Teo Yi-Ling, a Senior Fellow at the RSIS’ Centre of Excellence for National Security, said citizens felt they had been “baited and switched”. “There is the perception of inconsistency of information from the government,” she said. “This apparent incoherence on the part of the government is objectively damaging to any attempt to win the Singapore public’s trust in this respect.”