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Monday, April 12, 2010
'High on sugar'
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Two more H1N1-related deaths in Singapore
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
52 new H1N1 cases bring total infected in Singapore to 1,055
Since the 1,000-mark has been passed, the numbers just keep on increasing, with new cases on the average 75. Read the latest news here for Singapore.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Schools gear up for H1N1 fight
By Jessica Yeo/Valarie Tan, Channel NewsAsia Posted: 24 June 2009 2109 hrs
SINGAPORE: More schools are following the Education Ministry's health guidelines in light of the current H1N1 situation in Singapore.
Schools like Mercu Learning Point have taken steps to clean up their premises and will set up temperature-taking stations when school reopens next Monday.
They say that they will also minimise group outings, monitor hygiene levels and prevent large numbers of people from congregating.
Apart from complying with MOE's guidelines, Mercu Learning Point also has a crisis management team which has been around since the SARS period.
It comprises the External Liaison Team which helps get more information on H1N1, the Service Recovery Team which liaises with the parents and the Health Management Team which does the cleaning and deals with isolating its students.
Meanwhile Republic Polytechnic will implement one week of home-based e-learning for all its Year One students starting Thursday. It is estimated that some 4,500 students will be affected. Republic Polytechnic have nine confirmed H1N1 cases.
Nanyang Polytechnic will kick off its one-week home-based e-learning coming Monday when the new school term begins. Common tests planned for this period have also been rescheduled. Lecturers will be contactable via email and phone.
Nanyang Poly says this will apply to all 15,000 students, except those doing their Final-Year Project and Teaching Enterprise Project and those who are on Industrial Attachment, clinical practice and taking Continuing Education and Training courses.
It says this is a precautionary measure and not a direct response to confirmed H1N1 cases on campus.
Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic say they have no plans to implement e-learning for now.
Some foreign students and workers living in dormitories are also taking precautionary measures against H1N1.
One student hostel in Jurong, for example, has set up two isolation rooms. The hostel is home to some 1,800 students from 23 countries.
Residents are also required to take their body temperatures when they return to the hostel.
Meanwhile the operator of a foreign workers dormitory has printed H1N1 advisory posters in six languages for its 12,000 residents.
If there is an outbreak of H1N1 cases, unaffected workers will be relocated to another dormitory.
- CNA/ir
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
SINGAPORE: More schools are following the Education Ministry's health guidelines in light of the current H1N1 situation in Singapore.Schools like Mercu Learning Point have taken steps to clean up their premises and will set up temperature-taking stations when school reopens next Monday.
They say that they will also minimise group outings, monitor hygiene levels and prevent large numbers of people from congregating.
Apart from complying with MOE's guidelines, Mercu Learning Point also has a crisis management team which has been around since the SARS period.
It comprises the External Liaison Team which helps get more information on H1N1, the Service Recovery Team which liaises with the parents and the Health Management Team which does the cleaning and deals with isolating its students.
Meanwhile Republic Polytechnic will implement one week of home-based e-learning for all its Year One students starting Thursday. It is estimated that some 4,500 students will be affected. Republic Polytechnic have nine confirmed H1N1 cases.
Nanyang Polytechnic will kick off its one-week home-based e-learning coming Monday when the new school term begins. Common tests planned for this period have also been rescheduled. Lecturers will be contactable via email and phone.
Nanyang Poly says this will apply to all 15,000 students, except those doing their Final-Year Project and Teaching Enterprise Project and those who are on Industrial Attachment, clinical practice and taking Continuing Education and Training courses.
It says this is a precautionary measure and not a direct response to confirmed H1N1 cases on campus.
Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore Polytechnic and Temasek Polytechnic say they have no plans to implement e-learning for now.
Some foreign students and workers living in dormitories are also taking precautionary measures against H1N1.
One student hostel in Jurong, for example, has set up two isolation rooms. The hostel is home to some 1,800 students from 23 countries.
Residents are also required to take their body temperatures when they return to the hostel.
Meanwhile the operator of a foreign workers dormitory has printed H1N1 advisory posters in six languages for its 12,000 residents.
If there is an outbreak of H1N1 cases, unaffected workers will be relocated to another dormitory.
- CNA/ir
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
Monday, June 22, 2009
RP football team in Singapore plays alone due to A(H1N1)
OLMIN R. LEYBA, GMANews.TV
06/22/2009 | 10:32 PM
MANILA, Philippines - Traveling to Singapore to compete against 12 other nations at the 1st Asian Youth Games, the Filipino national youth football team now find themselves playing alone after one of the players was found to have A(H1N1).
The team of 17 players, two coaches and one therapist has been quarantined at a resort in Loyang since Friday in accordance with the AYG's A(H1N1) contingency plans.
"The kids are raring to play," the Philippine team's deputy chief of mission and Philippine Football Federation president Mari Martinez told GMANews.TV in a phone interview from Singapore. To stay sharp, the adolescent boys have been working out in isolation.
"It's frustrating for the athletes, matagal nilang pinaghandaan ito but it's beyond our control now. We have to accept that this can happen to anyone," said Philippine Olympic Committee spokesman Joey Romasanta, who is in Manila monitoring the situation in Singapore.
The squad was placed in quarantine – with no visitors allowed, including the players' parents - after one of its players, a 14-year-old boy, tested positive for the pandemic virus. Their scheduled games against Chinese Taipei (June 20) and Iran (June 24) were postponed until further notice.
The rest of the team ultimately tested negative for A(H1N1), according to Martinez. A second player developed a fever and was sent to the hospital for a checkup but Martinez said that after showing no symptoms of A(H1N1), the boy was allowed to rejoin his teammates at the resort on Monday morning.
While waiting for the outcome of Filipino officials' appeal to health authorities and organizers to let their boys join the 12 other nations in the competition, the Filipino players are working out at their beach location.
"The kids keep limbering up all the time at the bungalow they're staying in. They can't be stopped from running," Martinez reported.
"Hindi naman sila nag-taper off even if nasa beach resort sila. hey're still doing conditioning exercise, they're practicing. Ganyan talaga ang mga atleta, hindi sila tumitigil kahit walang ensayo. Given the opportunity, they practice on their own," Romasanta said for his part.
While the Filipinos are limited to practice, their scheduled opponents are already competing.
To monitor the health of their players, Thailand coach Pichai Kongsri and his Laotian counterpart Oudomphet Soutsakhone have ordered preventive measures, including regular temperature checks.
The Hong Kong football team even went to their training session wearing face masks, according to TODAY.
The only team to be quarantined, the RP football crew was assembled from the best 14-and-under players in the country, the bulk coming from Metro Manila, with Visayas and Mindanao also represented. They mostly come from private schools, including Ateneo, Southridge, Marist, FEU and De La Salle Zobel.
To prepare for the inaugural AYG, the squad trained for over a month at the PhilSports complex in Pasig City.
"They want to play and represent the country but were forced to undergo quarantine. They try to keep their morale high, and they're anxious to join the competition," said JJ Soriano, whose son Miel plays forward for the team.
Soriano and other parents who are already in Singapore are just as anxious to see their kids in action. "But we understand the health measures that Singapore is implementing," Soriano said.
The kids' parents were not subjected to the quarantine but Singaporean authorities are making arrangements for them to speak to their children via video conferencing, according to TODAY.
The RP football team was the first to check in for the AYG, which follows the tradition of holding the world's most popular sport ahead of the opening ceremonies.
The rest of the Philippine contingent – representing swimming, athletics, basketball, shooting, table tennis, beach volley, diving and bowling – are set to fly to Singapore in separate batches this week in time for the Games' June 29 opening rites.
Romasanta said the youngsters will go to the Games in high spirits, virtually unfazed by the possible stigma from having one of their teammates affected by A(H1N1).
"Mataas pa rin ang morale nila. You know kids, all they really want and look forward to is to play, mingle with other kids and enjoy the place," the POC spokesman said.
Romasanta dismissed fears that the Filipino kids will be singled out and discriminated upon when they arrive in Singapore.
"Remember, this is a global concern. Singapore nga mismo merong confirmed cases. This should be treated on a case-to-case basis," he said.
Filipino officials headed by Philippine Sports Commission chairman Harry Angping are personally appealing to Singapore's Health and Sports Ministries and the organizing committee to allow the healthy players to compete.
Angping's request, however, could go against the policies of Singapore's Ministry of Health regarding the quarantining of those who had contact with a person infected with the virus.
Under the ministry's Home Quarantine Orders (HQO), those who had close contact with confirmed cases of A(H1N1) "will be placed under quarantine for seven days from the point of their exposure to the virus, either at home or at designated facilities." Those who fail to comply with Singapore's HQO could be fined or even prosecuted.
In the case of the RP football team, the quarantine ends on Friday.
The team is requesting that they be allowed to leave their quarantine on an earlier date so they can play their postponed matches.
But Singapore's health authorities have yet to issue a decision on the Filipinos' request as of 8 p.m. Monday as more confirmed cases of A(H1N1) cropped out in the Games, this time involving three players from Hong Kong.
"It's really up to them (Singapore authorities)," Romasanta said. "They have their health guidelines. Pati sa atin sa DOH may guidelines din sa A(H1N1) that we all have to follow."
And seeking a postponement of the Games altogether is not an option, the POC official said.
"There's no such thing. Kung i-postpone natin yan, wala nang matutuloy na iba pang games," Romasanta said.
The Philippine football squad was actually not the first sports team to be placed in isolation due to A(H1N1). Last week, the Associated Press reported that South Korea quarantined an Australian under-21 lacrosse squad and its coaching staff after one of its members tested positive to swine flu.
The Australians, who were supposed to play against a joint team of Korea, Japan and Hong Kong in an international lacrosse meet, were released after five days in quarantine. - GMANews.TV
From GMANews.tv; see the source article here.
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