Agree with U, still i believe Orange (-) is as good as Orange, like enacting  to ask visitors over past seven (7) days instead of quarantin & remain lockup for 7 days, from flu effected state to declare filling up their form where they R orginiated, from temperature chk (scanning) at entry point (out going flu and temperature delcaration to be the the truth...assuming one is telling the truth.This is mean for last stage red to black alert), all data collected from airplanes that flew in...from effected and none effected states, including taxi drivers to remain consistenly alert and to report to MOH hotline, all personnel remain contactable

** One biggest exesice just done with 12,000 personnel has their temperature chk on 1st May 2009 at the Istana, with help by media. MOH has done a good job to make people's aware for what can happen if it ever happen here.

However is a little too much to shown hospital staffs wearing full blown protective items at hospital entry when dealing with public, refer to **, this is Kiasu...Ya. Putting on a N95 mask is more appreciated unless one is in business of dealing with in coming contact...like in airport where one must wear fully when even dealing with the list or the slightest suspect cases, refering to the nurse case in Germany, proper msg has to be send out 7 days before returning (while aboard or oversea) or coming in...all passengers will be inform of....weather is president men or himself. 

Just my sharing thot.

sometimes it is better to be kiasu a bit. Just imagine got pple died because of swine flu in Singapore. By then 2 late to intro orange or red.

Japan now have 1 probable case.  So Minister Khaw wrong on these (he said Singapore most probabily the first to get swine flu in Asia)

TOKYO - Japan is ready to provide medicine and know-how to the rest of Asia to help the region prevent the spread of swine flu, Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano said on Friday.

Mr Yosano said he would discuss possible anti-flu measures this weekend with his counterparts from Southeast Asia, China and South Korea when they gather in Bali on the sidelines of an annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank.

'There are fears of an outbreak of the flu in Asia, where we live,' Mr Yosano told reporters.

'It's not only a problem for our country,' he said. 'We have to consider our contribution to Asia, such as medical know-how, medicine and vaccines.'

Japan's government on Friday reported its first suspected case of swine flu, a 17-year-old high school student who returned last weekend from Canada.

teeth53      ( Date: 01-May-2009 11:35) Posted: teeth tot: MOH  has Over DONE with Orange, Should be Orange minus (-) or Yellow plus (+) S'PORE: Health Ministry (MOH) has sounded the orange alert for the Mexican swine flu pandemic, moving one notch up from yellow the previous day. So far, there are no confirmed cases here.  It is also imposing a home quarantine order on those who have recently travelled to Mexico. The move comes after the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised its pandemic alert phase from level 4 to level 5 on Thursday. According to Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, it is only a matter of time before the Mexican swine flu strikes Southeast Asia and its first case could well be in Singapore – one of the region's most globalised cities. Special Report • Swine Flu Outbreak ticklish8      ( Date: 30-Apr-2009 20:03) Posted: Many disappointed face after he announce no swine flu cases in Singapore. There were rumours on 2-3 cases...

teeth tot: MOH  has Over DONE with Orange, Should be Orange minus (-) or Yellow plus (+)

S'PORE: Health Ministry (MOH) has sounded the orange alert for the Mexican swine flu pandemic, moving one notch up from yellow the previous day. So far, there are no confirmed cases here. 

It is also imposing a home quarantine order on those who have recently travelled to Mexico.
The move comes after the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised its pandemic alert phase from level 4 to level 5 on Thursday.

According to Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, it is only a matter of time before the Mexican swine flu strikes Southeast Asia and its first case could well be in Singapore – one of the region's most globalised cities.

Special Report

• Swine Flu Outbreak

good quote.

"We have been lucky so far, but I think it will not be long before patients or even deaths start to occur here.  In SE Asia, we are the most globalised country, so the first cluster of cases in SE Asia may well emerge in Singapore.  We must be mentally prepared for this scenario and not be shocked into panic or inaction when it happens"

WHO raises flu alert, demands pandemic plans activated
Posted: 30 April 2009 0451 hrs

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation raised its flu alert Wednesday signalling a swine flu pandemic is "imminent" as a toddler in the United States became the first to die of the disease outside of Mexico.

"All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans," WHO chief Margaret Chan said as she raised the alert to five on a scale of six following WHO health expert talks in Geneva.

"The international community should treat this as an opportunity to ramp up the response. After all, it is really all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic," she added.

Phase five, one step short of a full pandemic, is characterised as a "strong signal that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalise... the planned mitigation measures is short," the WHO global emergency planning says.

But Chan stopped short of ordering the production of a pandemic vaccine, a move that would have meant disrupting the production of seasonal flu vaccines.

So far seven deaths have been confirmed in Mexico - the epicenter of the current outbreak - although Mexican officials have said the new multi-strain virus is suspected in 159 deaths. More than 1,300 people are also in hospital with flu symptoms, of which 49 are confirmed cases of swine flu.

...... http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/425936/1/.html