SINGAPORE: SOME SCHOOLS / COLLEGES REOPEN AFTER SARS PRECAUTIONS/ PASSENGERS SCREENED AT AIRPORT
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SINGAPORE: SOME SCHOOLS / COLLEGES REOPEN AFTER SARS PRECAUTIONS/ PASSENGERS SCREENED AT AIRPORT
- Title: SINGAPORE: SOME SCHOOLS / COLLEGES REOPEN AFTER SARS PRECAUTIONS/ PASSENGERS SCREENED AT AIRPORT
- Date: 8th April 2003
- Summary: (W3) SINGAPORE (APRIL 9, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF ENTRANCE OF ANGLO-CHINESE JUNIOR COLLEGE (ACJC) 0.05 2. CLOSE OF ANGLO CHINESE JUNIOR COLLEGE BADGE ON WALL 0.08 3. SLV STUDENTS WALKING UP STAIRS 0.14 4. SLV OF PLASMA TELEVISION SHOWING INFORMATION ABOUT SARS/STUDENTS WALKING BY 0.19 5. CLOSE OF PLASMA TV WITH SARS PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION 0.23 6. SLV STUDENTS WALKING IN CORRIDOR 0.25 7. VARIOUS,.OF STUDENTS IN LECTURE (2 SHOTS) 0.35 8. SLV TEACHER SPEAKING TO CLASS 0.40 9. SMV , OF STUDENTS ATTENDING LECTURE 0.45 10. WIDE OF TUTOR ON MICROPHONE TALKING TO CLASS 0.50 11. WIDE OF STUDENTS 0.56 12. WIDE OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS EATING AT CANTEEN 1.02 13. SMV STUDENTS QUEUING TO GET THEIR LUNCH 1.07 14. VARIOUS, STUDENTS EATING LUNCH (3 SHOTS) 1.21 15. SMV/ CLOSE OF STUDENTS READING LECTURE NOTES AT TABLE (2 SHOTS) 1.30 16. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) GABRIEL CHEONG KAH KAY, ACJC STUDENT, SAYING "I think after the break it's quite good that we know that all our friends are okay, that all of them are healthy and well, and that they have not been infected by the SARS virus." 1.40 17. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHIA HUI LING, ACJC STUDENT, SAYING "Very glad to be back in school again, it has been a long break that has been focused mostly on SARS and the Iraq war. And I think now it's good to get back some semblance of normal student life again where we just focus on our work and have some purpose in our life other than worrying about it, which is not really good for health in general." 2.00 18. SLV OF STUDENTS AT CANTEEN 2.05 (W3) SINGAPORE (APRIL 8, 2003) (REUTERS) 19. VARIOUS OF PASSENGERS WEARING MASKS AT CHANGI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (2 SHOTS) 2.12 20. VARIOUS OF PASSENGERS ARRIVING/WEARING MASKS (2 SHOTS) 2.22 21. VARIOUS OF PARAMEDIC PUTTING ON MASK, COAT AND GLOVES/GETTING READY TO INSPECT PASSENGERS (5 SHOTS) 2.46 22. VARIOUS OF PLANE ARRIVING FROM BEIJING (2 SHOTS) 2.52 23. VARIOUS OF NURSES AND PARAMEDIC WAITING TO INSPECT ARRIVING PASSENGERS 3.01 24. SLV PASSENGERS WALKING ALONG CORRIDOR 3.08 25. VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 3.16 26. HOSPITAL PATIENTS AND VISITORS QUEUEING TO GET TEMPERATURE CHECKED AT ENTRANCE OF ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY (A AND E) GATE 3.20 27. CLOSE OF SIGN TELLING PATIENTS ABOUT THE MANDATORY SCREENING 3.22 28. VARIOUS OF MAN GETTING TEMPERATURE CHECKED (2 SHOTS) 3.31 29. VARIOUS OF MAN FILLING UP FORMS FOR SCREENING (2 SHOTS) 3.38 30. WIDE OF PEOPLE AT HOSPITAL ENTRANCE 3.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SINGAPORE
- Country: Singapore
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- Story Text: Singapore has reopened some classes for the first time
since shutting down the school system three weeks ago to halt
the spread of a deadly strain of pneumonia.
It has also called out its military to battle the deadly
flu-like SARS virus, as paramedics helped to screen passengers
arriving from SARS affected countries at the airport.
Sixteen and eighteen-year-olds filed into junior college
classes on Wednesday (April 9, 2003) as news of more SARS
infections at the sprawling Singapore General Hospital, and a
ninth death, deepened public anxiety over the month-long
epidemic and raised fears of its spread.
Around 600,000 children have been kept out of classes
since March 26 in the first large-scale school closure since
Singapore's then British colonial rulers gave children time
off during a poliomyelitis outbreak in 1958.
Teenagers at secondary schools return to school on April
14 and primary children on April 16.
Despite the continued spread of SARS in the city state,
junior college students said they were glad to be back in
school again.
"I think after the break it's quite good that we know that
all our friends are okay, that all of them are healthy and
well, and that they have not been infected by the SARS virus,"
said Gabriel Cheong Kah Kay.
"Very glad to be back in school again, it has been a long
break that has been focused mostly on SARS and the Iraq war.
And I think now it's good to get back some semblance of normal
student life again where we just focus on our work and have
some purpose in our life other than worrying about it, which
is not really good for health in general," said Chua Hui Ling.
SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, has killed at
least 103 people worldwide, including nine in Singapore. The
city state has the world's fourth-highest number of confirmed
cases.
The government said on Tuesday (April 8) a man in his 50s
had died and five more people were infected with SARS. A
further 82 are suspected of catching the lethal strain of
pneumonia. Two-thirds of the SARS patients have recovered.
Singapore has called out the military to battle the deadly
virus and said this week that it may use Internet-linked
cameras to enforce home quarantine orders.
Air force paramedics, wearing green camouflage fatigues,
medical gowns and surgical masks, have joined nurses at Changi
International Airport to screen passengers arriving from
places hit by SARS such as China, Hong Kong and Toronto.
The latest cases include two nurses and a patient at
Singapore General, the nation's largest hospital, undercutting
aggressive efforts to confine SARS to another hospital, Tan
Tock Seng, which specialises in communicable diseases.
Singapore has taken aggressive steps to contain SARS
beyond World Health Organisation recommendations, quarantining
hundreds, closing schools and stationing nurses at air and sea
ports.
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