The Straits Times

May 2, 2009 Saturday

Updated

Straits Times Headlines

More help for white-collar workers

HK reports Asia's first H1N1 flu case

12,000 tested at Istana

Inside

Like Sars, but not like Sars

View Points

New drive to Clean Up Singapore

Singapore imposes visa requirement for Mexicans

Be socially responsible, not complacent about flu: PM

What's happening out there...

Labs race to create speedy test for flu

More die of 'regular' influenza

Wanchai hotel isolates guests

Bangkok to host Asean+3 health meet on flu next week

Pastor regrets 'actions on pulpit'

How it got to this

Will face-off take off? No confidence vote not on EGM agenda

Breaking News

Baby tested for H1N1 flu

Plane passengers tracked

64 dead in shelling of hospital

2 suspected cases in India

Plane sent for citizens

Flight to be quarantined

H1N1 flu hits Asia

S.Korea confirms first case **

2 under surveillance

TWO Singaporeans who returned from Mexico are on voluntary phone surveillance even though the home quarantine order has yet to kick in, and there are still no probable cases of Influenza A(H1N1-2009) in Singapore.

The seven-day home quarantine order for those who return from Mexico and other affected regions kicks in on Monday, but in the interim, phone notification and surveillance will be enforced, said the Ministry of Health on Saturday.

Josie's team quits

THE new executive committee of the beleagured Association of Women and Research (Aware) has decided to step down.

Said its president Josie Lau, after a marathon extraordinary general meeting lasting over seven hours on Saturday: 'We have decided to graciously step down. We wish Aware all the best.'

No confidence on new team

VOTE of no confidence in new executive committee member was passed by Aware members at extraordinary general meeting, which ran over five hours on Saturday.

The vote was passed by a margin of 1,414 to 761.

Hospitals vaccinating staff

HOSPITALS have started vaccinating their front line staff against the seasonal flu.

The vaccination is unlikely to give much protection against the new influenza A H1N1 strain, but it will stop 'background noise', or undue worry caused by them catching a normal flu.

Obama calls for readiness

WASHINGTON - THE strain of flu virus that is alarming the world is so new and poorly understood that it justifies the US government's multi-pronged efforts to fight it, President Barack Obama said on Saturday.

Swine flu, or H1N1 flu as the government calls it, has caused only one confirmed US death. But medical authorities fear it could become much worse, Mr Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, and that's why he has thrown substantial federal resources into the campaign against it.