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To: TobagoJack who wrote (31271)	4/10/2003 9:18:32 PM
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Singapore quarantines new foreign workers Friday, April 11, 2003 asia.scmp.com RAVINA SHAMDASANI, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE and DEUTSCHE PRESSE-AGENTUR Singapore will quarantine from today all workers arriving from areas infected with atypical pneumonia for 10 days even if they show no symptoms of the disease, the government announced yesterday. All workers - including professionals and blue-collar labourers, from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Canada - with work permits and employment passes would be quarantined at public or private health centres at their employers' expense to prevent Sars breaks in the workplace, said a spokeswoman for the consul-general of Singapore in Hong Kong. "After 10 days' quarantine, the work pass will be issued," she said. "The government is assisting employers by showing flexibility in extending the work visas of existing workers of similar nationalities so employers don't need to hire new ones and to minimise the risk of imported cases." Existing work permit and some employment pass holders who return to the city-state after visiting Sars-affected areas would also be subject to the 10-day quarantine, while other visitors from affected regions would be subject to the usual health screening, she said. In Thailand, which had remained Sars-free according to officials, visitors no longer had to wear face masks or be quarantined. Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien will eat lunch in Toronto's Chinatown district today to try to undo some of the social and economic damage caused by fear of Sars, officials said. So far 10 Canadians have died from the virus, while thousands more, mostly in Toronto, have been quarantined in their homes. The problems have been particularly acute in Toronto's Chinatown, and community officials say ethnic Chinese are being discriminated against by those who hold them responsible for the spread of atypical pneumonia. Sales in Chinatown have fallen by up to 70 per cent since the crisis started. Worldwide, the death toll yesterday rose to 111 and aout 2,800 were suspected to be carriers of the Sars virus.