Weary Singapore is ready for swine flu

Telegraph.co.uk, 28 Apr 2009, Ben Bland
With Singapore's economy already forecast to shrink by as much as 10pc this year and memories of the SARS epidemic still fresh in many minds, people here are nervous but calm.
Though only 33 people died during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Singapore it hit the economy, which is partly reliant on tourism and business travel, hard.
While the US-Mexico border is open for business as usual with no special precautions, in Singapore, where there have been no reported cases of swine flu yet, temperature screening machines have been put in place at the airport.
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