SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): All public hospital emergency departments here are on "outbreak response mode" as Singapore raises its defences against a mysterious virus that is spreading in China.
"We cannot rule out the possibility that the new (Wuhan) virus will reach Singapore," Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), told The Straits Times. The stakes are higher now that the virus has started spreading from human to human.
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