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06 May 2003
Situation Update
There are no new probable cases and no discharges today.
To date, 149 patients have recovered from SARS, 27 patients remained hospitalised, of whom 10 are in intensive care.
A 72-year-old vegetable seller from Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre (PPWC) who was admitted to TTSH as a suspect SARS patient on 19 April 03, has died today. He had been diagnosed as a probable SARS on 24 April 03 and had been in intensive care since 25 April 03.
New Patients
There were 4 admissions today as suspect cases. All were admitted for fever. Two were workers from PPWC who were found to have fever when they were screened before entering the PPWC. The others were an inpatient transferred from SGH and the last a TTSH nurse. The nurse was picked up to have fever by the hospital?s staff temperature monitoring system, and admitted as a precautionary measure.
In addition, three persons with fever were admitted for observation. One had travelled to China and the other two have no established contact history.
Quarantine Figures*
A summary of the home quarantine figures to date:
#Discharged patients under home quarantine: 366
Contacts under home quarantine: 592
Total under home quarantine orders: 958
*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 non-SARS patients with co-morbidities who are discharged from hospital.
Summary of SARS cases
A summary of the SARS cases to date:
Discharged: 149
Hospitalised: 27 (including 10 in intensive care)
Deaths: 27
Probable Cases: 204
Suspect Cases: 15
Observation Cases: 6
Travel advisory
MOH urges the public to heed World Health Organisation (WHO)'s advice to postpone travel to Hong Kong, Guangdong, Beijing, Shanxi until another time. We also advise the public to avoid travel to other SARS affected areas - Taiwan, Toronto and Mongolia, unless absolutely necessary.