By Tan Yew Guan, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 27 May 2009 2224 hrs
Communicable Diseases Centre at Tan Tock Seng hospital in Singapore
SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health has identified 71 close contacts among the passengers on the same flight as the country's first confirmed H1N1 patient.
Flight SQ25 was flying from New York to Singapore via Frankfurt.
23 passengers disembarked at Frankfurt.
Of the remaining 48 passengers, eight Singaporeans and 14 foreigners are in Singapore and will be quarantined at home and given anti-viral drugs.
Another 23 passengers who were foreigners were apparently on transit at Changi Airport as there are no records of them entering Singapore.
Another three entered Singapore but have left for Malaysia.
Singapore authorities have informed the World Health Organisation of the situation.
Singapore's first confirmed case was on a study trip to New York as a student of the Singapore Management University.
A student and a lecturer who came back with her have turned up at Tan Tock Seng hospital because of non-specific symptoms.
The remaining 18 students on the same study trip are still in North America.
The boyfriend and maid of the confirmed case have been identified as close contacts.
Her boyfriend has been warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital because of non-specific symptoms.
He will be quarantined upon discharge.
Her maid has already been sent to a quarantine centre.
The patient's seven family members has not been quarantined because they are either overseas or were not in sustained contact with the case.
Hospital and ambulance staff who served the case will also not be quarantined because they were in full protective gear when managing the case.
This applies to the doctor and the staff who treated her at a clinic as well. The doctor was in full protective gear and the clinic staff who served her had only brief contact with her.
Other staff were sitting more than two metres away.
There was one other patient in the clinic but was seated more than two metres away from the patient.
Singapore's immigration authorities are now on the look out for all other close contacts who are currently not in Singapore.
In the event they enter Singapore before the end of the quarantine period on 2 June, they will be quarantined for the remaining period.
They will also be on the look out for those who are serving their quarantine orders in case they leave Singapore during that period. - CNA/vm
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
Communicable Diseases Centre at Tan Tock Seng hospital in SingaporeSINGAPORE: The Ministry of Health has identified 71 close contacts among the passengers on the same flight as the country's first confirmed H1N1 patient.
Flight SQ25 was flying from New York to Singapore via Frankfurt.
23 passengers disembarked at Frankfurt.
Of the remaining 48 passengers, eight Singaporeans and 14 foreigners are in Singapore and will be quarantined at home and given anti-viral drugs.
Another 23 passengers who were foreigners were apparently on transit at Changi Airport as there are no records of them entering Singapore.
Another three entered Singapore but have left for Malaysia.
Singapore authorities have informed the World Health Organisation of the situation.
Singapore's first confirmed case was on a study trip to New York as a student of the Singapore Management University.
A student and a lecturer who came back with her have turned up at Tan Tock Seng hospital because of non-specific symptoms.
The remaining 18 students on the same study trip are still in North America.
The boyfriend and maid of the confirmed case have been identified as close contacts.
Her boyfriend has been warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital because of non-specific symptoms.
He will be quarantined upon discharge.
Her maid has already been sent to a quarantine centre.
The patient's seven family members has not been quarantined because they are either overseas or were not in sustained contact with the case.
Hospital and ambulance staff who served the case will also not be quarantined because they were in full protective gear when managing the case.
This applies to the doctor and the staff who treated her at a clinic as well. The doctor was in full protective gear and the clinic staff who served her had only brief contact with her.
Other staff were sitting more than two metres away.
There was one other patient in the clinic but was seated more than two metres away from the patient.
Singapore's immigration authorities are now on the look out for all other close contacts who are currently not in Singapore.
In the event they enter Singapore before the end of the quarantine period on 2 June, they will be quarantined for the remaining period.
They will also be on the look out for those who are serving their quarantine orders in case they leave Singapore during that period. - CNA/vm
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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