ALONG with pencils and books, children in Singapore must now pack thermometers in their schoolbags so they can check their temperatures twice a day to detect Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Teachers began distributing S$5mil (RM10.7mil) worth of government-subsidised digital thermometers to primary school students yesterday as part of the city-state's campaign against SARS.
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