THE number of people visiting clinics has surged in the past two weeks, driven by a fear that they have caught H1N1.

For example, there's been a 50 per cent increase in those visiting polyclinics to get treatment for acute upper respiratory infections - which include flu - jumping from 10,749 in the last week of June to 15,817 last week.

General practitioners, too, are saying they are seeing greater numbers of people at their clinics.

Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.