Singapore’s first lady has made an apology of sorts after throwing shade towards a donation of medical supplies from Taiwan over the weekend.

On Saturday, Ho Ching, wife of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and CEO of state-owned Temasek Holdings, shared a news post on Facebook about Taiwan donating medical masks to Singapore with the simple, sarcastic caption of “Errrr.”

The dismissive caption puzzled locals and outraged many in Taiwan with some calling for the Taiwanese government to take back the gift. Meanwhile, her Facebook page was bombarded with “Errr” comments.

In response to the anger, Ho edited her Facebook post on Monday, adding in lines of emojis and rambling paragraphs while saying that she is “forever grateful” to “all our friends and friends of friends in Taiwan.”

Ho failed to actually address her original “errrr” comment and instead called for humanity to put aside its cyber disputes and fight together against their common enemy — the “little bug.”

Here’s the whole thing:

Errrr …. 😄😄😃😃😄😄 To all our friends and friends of friends in Taiwan, a huge thank you to all that you have done, and please know that I’m forever grateful. We all know we are in this together as one world – and I’m totally grateful for every one which has reached out, advised, pointed the way, and tried their best to help, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. But that sincere effort and thought, regardless of success or failure, is what I will treasure forever. And mistakes? Also forgiven, lah! Meanwhile, errrrr ….. 😇🙃😉😂🤪🤣😇

🤗😷😮😲🤔😳🤗 Hugs, everyone, and stop trying to beat each other up in cyber space. It’s the covid that we should beat, not one by one, not country by country, not flag by flag, because the little bug doesn’t respect any of our prejudices and biases, hopes or fears. This bug can be beaten, when we all pull together as one, and do what we need to do. This is the least we can do, to respect all those who have lost their lives already, to help all those still fighting for their lives, and to fully back everyone from cleaner to doctor who are working their butts out so that the rest of us can be safe and well. Meanwhile, mind the gap, keep our saliva to ourselves, and keep safe.

The shade of Ho’s initial cryptic comment appears to have been aimed at Taiwan not donating or allowing the export of masks to Singapore during the initial coronavirus outbreak, when they were most needed.

Taiwan’s government banned the export of face masks back in January.

A subsidiary of Ho’s Temasek Holdings was manufacturing masks in Taiwan but shifted production back home because of the ban.

However, Taiwan’s Finance Minister has said that the company’s masks were actually exempt from the export ban, pointing out that a shipment was shipped back to Singapore on January 29.

Meanwhile, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the donation of masks to Singapore will not be revoked and, despite Ho’s comment, the country was very happy about the gift.