- SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Mobile
phone maker Motorola Inc said on Saturday a worker in its Singapore factory
had been infected with the deadly pneumonia virus, causing it to pull 531
production staff from the factory floor and others to await quarantine
orders.
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- Motorola was informed on Thursday that a night-shift
worker had contracted the virus from a family member. It asked the night-shift
workers not to report to work as a precaution.
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- "A number of that total will be receiving the (quarantine)
order, it's going to be a proportion of that total number," a spokeswoman
with Motorola, the world's number two wireless phone maker, told Reuters.
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- The government had advised it would be issuing quarantine
orders to only those night-shift employees who worked in the same area
as the affected employee so some staff have since returned to work, she
said.
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- Local media said around 100 people had sat around the
affected worker.
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- The city-state has nearly doubled the number of people
quarantined to contain the virus that has killed more than 54 people worldwide,
ordering 1,514 citizens to stay home and shut schools for 10 days, as the
number of infections climbed.
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- All are suspected of having close contact with people
infected with acute severe respiratory syndrome (SARS), which has spread
to parts of Asia, Europe and America since showing up in southern China
late last year, where it left 31 people dead.
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- The United States urged Americans on Friday to postpone
travel to parts of Asia because of the fast-spreading virus.
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- The Singapore government said on Friday that a new wave
of infections could potentially erupt as a woman who recently returned
from Hong Kong and Beijing was also now sick with the virus.
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- A health ministry spokeswoman said on Saturday the government
was rushing to reach passengers of a China Southern Airlines flight and
a taxi driver who had been in contact with the woman.
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- The number of people infected with the virus rose to
86 on Friday from 78 a day earlier, the government said. Those in serious
condition rose to 12 from 11, it said.
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