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30 Jul 2003
SARS Situation Update
The last probable SARS case in Singapore had onset of symptoms on 5 May 2003 and was isolated on 11 May 2003. There have been no new probable SARS cases since.
Discontinuation of temperature screening for visitors to hospitals
In view of the improved global and local SARS situation, the Ministry of Health will be reviewing and progressively stepping down the SARS control measures currently in place at hospitals and polyclinics.
As such, with effect from Friday, 1 August 2003, temperature screening for visitors to hospitals will be discontinued.
However, hospitals are still required to obtain the contact details of all visitors to clinical areas including wards, intensive care units, emergency departments and specialist outpatient clinics. This is to facilitate contact tracing should there be a need to do so. Temperature screening of patients at Emergency Departments and Specialist outpatient clinics will still continue. This will allow febrile patients to be managed separately from other patients.
Discontinuation of Fever Clinics at polyclinics
In addition, with effect from Friday, 1 August 2003, Fever Clinics at Chua Chu Kang, Yishun, Tampines and Geylang polyclinics will be discontinued. However, the system of triaging and managing febrile patients as a separate stream in all polyclinics will still continue.
New suspect cases
There were no new suspect cases admitted to TTSH.
New observation cases
From 23 to 30 July 2003, a total of 9 cases were admitted to TTSH for observation. 5 have been diagnosed as non-SARS cases. The remaining 4 are still warded for observation.
Quarantine Figures
The quarantine figures are as follows:
#Discharged patients under home quarantine = 1
Contacts under home quarantine = 0
Total under home quarantine orders = 1
*Quarantine cases refer to those who are required to stay at home for precautionary reasons as they may have had contact with a SARS patient. These are healthy individuals.
# This is an added precautionary measure for discharged SARS patients as well as those with co-morbidities.
Summary of SARS Cases
A summary of SARS cases is as follows:
Recovered from SARS: 205
Hospitalised: 0
Deaths: 33
Probable cases: 238
Suspect cases: 0
Observation cases: 0
ICU: 0
Discontinuation of Updates on SARS
With effect from today, the weekly MOH press update on SARS every Wednesday will be discontinued. Subsequent press releases will be issued when the need arises.