Archive for the 'Singapore' Category

Water polo players get flu

Leonard Lim
The Straits Times
Publication Date: 04-07-2009
Six members of the national Under-16 water polo team who competed in Jakarta last week tested positive for the Influenza A (H1N1) virus after returning on Sunday.

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Two Singapore schools to close for a week

Jessica Jaganathan
The Straits Times
Publication Date: 29-06-2009
Two secondary schools have decided to close for a week after their teachers tested positive for the Influenza A (H1N1) virus on June 27.

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Better overshooting than be caught napping

One imponderable that arises from the elaborate control measures being deployed to manage the H1N1 flu outbreak in Singapore is the quarantine. In the initial stages of the pandemic, a number of countries took no chances and practised obligatory isolating of travellers who might have been exposed. One sidelight to this 2009 flu episode that [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Focused approach’: Singaporean MOE

Jessica Jaganathan and Leow Si Wan
The Straits Times
Publication Date: 24-06-2009
One or two pupils felled by the H1N1 flu and their class may be sent home for a week. More, and the whole school may be ordered shut.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

16 new unlinked flu cases in Singapore

April Chong
The Straits Times
Publication Date: 22-06-2009
More evidence has emerged that the Influenza A (H1N1) flu virus is now being spread in the local community among Singaporeans who have not travelled overseas.

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Teen footballers quarantined

SINGAPORE: Singapore has quarantined 19 members of a Philippine youth football team after one player tested positive for influenza A (H1N1) ahead of a regional sports competition, officials said yesterday.

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

16 new unlinked flu cases in Singapore

April Chong
The Straits Times
Publication Date: 22-06-2009
More evidence has emerged that the Influenza A (H1N1) flu virus is now being spread in the local community among Singaporeans who have not travelled overseas.

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

New flu cases signal local community spread: Singapore

SINGAPORE — Swine flu may have started spreading in Singapore after the city-state confirmed 23 new cases, of which eight had not traveled to affected areas or had known contact with other confirmed cases.

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

AYG athlete has H1N1

Leonard Lim
The Straits Times
Publication Date: 21-06-2009
A teenage Filipino footballer in town for the inaugural Asian Youth Games (AYG) is down with Influenza A (H1N1). But organisers said on Saturday that the event would go on as scheduled and that the health and safety of the participants remained their paramount concern.

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

A wedding that left 6 ill with H1N1

icholas Yong
The Straits Times
Publication Date: 15-06-2009
A wedding in Melbourne ended unluckily for six Singaporean guests who all came down with the Influenza A (H1N1) flu virus.

Monday, June 15th, 2009