Risk of import into Singapore elevated. Isolated imported cases may occur but there is no sustained transmission.
SUSPECTED AND CONFIRMED CASES
Deaths: Global total of 76
66 in Mexico; six in US; one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. Officials said the Canadian, US and Costa Rican victims also had other medical conditions.
Confirmed cases: WHO says 40 countries have reported a total of 9,830 cases, mostly in the US and Mexico. That total does not include Ecuador, Malaysia and Peru, which recently reported their first cases.
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
Japan health officials said swine flu has infected 178 people in the country, even as the government shut down schools and cancelled community events in affected cities.
US health officials are seeing a surprisingly high number of cases of ordinary, seasonal flu at a time when the flu season typically peters out.
CDC says 46 US states plus District of Columbia have combined 4,714 confirmed and probable cases. Most probable cases are eventually confirmed.
A high school assistant principal has become the first New York City death linked to the outbreak. He had been sick for nearly a week before his school was closed on Thursday.
A wave of new confirmations sent the number of swine flu cases in Japan soaring to more than 120, health officials said, prompting the government to order the closure of schools and the cancellation of community events.
Chile confirmed its first two cases of swine flu in two women who arrived from the Dominican Republic. The women, ages 25 and 32, are hospitalised and in good condition, Health Minister Alvaro Erazo said.
Officials in Peru say a US man living in that country has become the South American nation's second confirmed case of swine flu. Health Minister Oscar Ugarte says the 37-year-old man is a resident of the southern city of Arequipa.
Global health experts say they plan to examine swine flu's spread in Spain, Britain and Japan as the World Health Organization prepares for its annual meeting beginning Monday. Issues to be considered at the Geneva meeting include vaccine recommendations and the pandemic alert level.
The fifth US death attributed to swine flu was reported Friday in a 33-year-old Texas man who died May 5 or May 6 after becoming sick a few days earlier.
