Update on Feb. 8, 4:06pm: Chief Communications Officer of SMRT Margaret Teo has confirmed the incident at 12:24am of Feb. 8 and added that staff who attended to the man wore masks and gloves as a precautionary measure.

Full statement here:

“On Friday (7 Feb) at about 5pm, a male commuter at Raffles Place station was feeling unwell. Our station staff attended to him and called for an ambulance. As a precautionary measure, our staff wore masks and gloves when helping the commuter.”

Photos of a man collapsing at Raffles Place MRT station on Feb. 7 have been circulating online.

Man allegedly collapsed at Raffles Place

One of the photos shows a man wearing a face mask and a white shirt lying near the gantries.

An ambulance crew in protective gear was spotted attending to the man in another photo.

Several onlookers are seen in the background as well.

Here are the two photos:

The photos have clearly caused quite a fair bit of alarm considering that the government just raised its risk assessment of the coronavirus spread in Singapore to DORSCON Orange along with the announcement of three new confirmed cases.

Raising the alert to Orange acknowledges that the disease is severe and spreads easily but has not yet become widespread in Singapore.

According to some netizens, the man was coughing and had breathing difficulties prior to his collapse.

Photos also show TransCom officers and a helpful passer-by checking on the man before the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived.

Fuck. Someone collapsed over at Raffles MRT.

— ★彡 Neko-chan⁷ 彡★ 猫 ちゃん (@katisabrat) February 7, 2020

A widely-circulated WhatsApp message also described the man collapsing in front of the station control after “coughing very hard”.

SCDF confirmed incident, man sent to TTSH

In response to a query by Mothership, the SCDF confirmed that it responded to the incident which happened at 5pm on Feb. 7 at 5 Raffles Place.

An ambulance crew conveyed the man, who is in his thirties, to Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH).

Top photo collage via WhatsApp.