By Hoe Yeen Nie, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 21 June 2009 0111 hrs
A medical staff checks the temperature of a woman entering the Tan Tock Seng hospitalSINGAPORE: Singapore has confirmed another 23 cases of the H1N1 flu, bringing the total so far to 126.
Of the 23 new cases, eight are local cases from two clusters of local transmission.
The first is the Riverlife Church, which saw five students fall ill after attending its services on June 13 and 14.
One of them, a student at Chung Cheng High School (Main) was reported on Friday.
Four are new cases, including the student's younger brother. Another two are also students at Chung Cheng High School.
A second cluster was found at the National University of Singapore (NUS), which saw three students fall ill.
One of them was reported on Friday, while the other two had their infection confirmed on Saturday.
The two new cases are a 24-year-old Columbian woman and a 22-year-old American woman.
All three are foreign exchange students who had met up on June 13. They were with a group of other NUS schoolmates on an educational trip to Thailand from June 5 to 8.
There are also two new cases that have no confirmed links with previous patients.
One of them is the father of a boy who is a close contact of an earlier case.
The Ministry of Health is investigating if both infections are related.
The remaining 15 are all imported cases, including a 14-year-old Asian Youth Games participant from the Philippines.
He has been admitted to the Communicable Disease Centre, while his team-mates and two coaches are quarantined at the Aloha Resort at Loyang.
Singapore's total number of confirmed H1N1 cases now stands at 126, with 94 still in hospital. They are in stable condition.
Contact tracing is underway for all the cases. - CNA /ls
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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