SARS update Singapore
Anyone nightstopping in Singapore in the near future can rest easy. Its business as usual in the restaurants and malls, apart from places like Boat Quay and Clarkes Quay, which have been badly affected be the more than 50% drop off in tourist numbers. Most of the cases are associated with the hospitals, including medical staff, visitors and relatives of exsisting patients. One fly in the ointment was people disregarding quarantine restrictions, but the tough new laws being rushed through parliament should put a stop to that. Very few people feel the need to wear face masks, and I am quite relaxed eating out and going to the cinema. All pax and crews leaving the country go through a full body infra-red scan, so anyone with an above normal temperature will be medically screened before departure. Because of its prompt and comprehensive measures against the virus, Singapore has now been taken off the W.H.O. no go list.