>>Singapore quarantines 160 air passengers
SINGAPORE - A total of 267 passengers and crew on three flights which carried suspected or probable SARS cases into Singapore are being quarantined or monitored but no new cases have been found, the health ministry said.
As a precaution, home quarantine orders have been issued to 160 passengers with local addresses, requiring them to stay in for 10 days, the incubation period of the virus causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
Airlines have been informed about 33 foreign crew members on the flights.
Out of the 74 passengers who are not living here, 59 have left Singapore and their countries of destination have been informed. Most of the remaining 15 have been found and showed no symptoms.
Foreigners who fall ill in Singapore will "get the necessary treatment until they get well," a spokeswoman for the health ministry said Friday.
The quarantine and surveillance measures were applied to three flights which each carried a passenger who fell ill after arrival in Singapore.
One of the passengers lives in Hong Kong and arrived here on Singapore Airlines flight SQ859 last Sunday. He was sent from the airport to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where SARS treatment has been centralized, as a suspected SARS case.
Another passenger was in Shanghai prior to his arrival in Singapore on China Eastern Airlines flight MU 545, also on Sunday. He was admitted to the hospital and declared a suspected SARS case.
The third passenger, a Singaporean man, had travelled to Jakarta on April 18 and returned to Singapore with a fever on April 22 aboard Garuda flight GA 828. He was admitted and four days later diagnosed as a probable SARS case. His mother has also been confined as a probable SARS case.
No new cases were reported in Singapore on Thursday. The city-state has registered 24 deaths from SARS, with another possible fatality undergoing a post- mortem, out of 201 cases. Only probable cases -- patients who show full-blown symptoms -- are included in the tally of cases.
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