His brief was simple. Identify and find a passenger who had taken a taxi whose driver had Covid-19.
But all Senior Staff Sergeant Mohamad Shapie Saleh had to go on were that the passenger had alighted in Chai Chee Road and a blurry photo, obtained from a different police team, that gave him a rough idea of the man's attire.
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