coold,
here's a link fyi:
http://www.crisis.gov.sg/FLU/Alert+System.htm
But if you can't read it at HCM, Orange means:
Alert Orange
Virus becoming increasingly better adapted to humans but may not yet be fully transmissible , requiring close contact with an index case.
Larger clusters appear in one or two places outside Singapore but a pandemic has not yet been declared. A cluster of cases may also occur in Singapore but human-to-human spread remains localized.
Public health measures such as isolation and quarantine will be effective to break the chain of transmission. Strategy is to contain spread arising from any local cases and break the chain of transmission, while preserving essential services and resources.
Action:
Implement “No visitor” rule at all hospitals.
Restrict all inter-hospital movement of patients or healthcare workers.
Set up Flu Clinics at the 18 Polyclinics for assessment and anti-viral treatment of flu-like patients.
Commence antiviral prophylaxis for identified essential services.
Encourage temperature taking at schools and all non-healthcare workplaces, markets, places of mass gatherings etc.
Carry out temperature screening for in-bound and outbound passengers at all air, sea and land border checkpoints.
Consider closing of schools and suspension of public gathering and events.
The next step up is RED:
Alert Red
WHO declares that an influenza pandemic has begun. Singapore eventually also affected.
Higher risk of acquiring the disease from the community once pandemic spreads to Singapore .
Strategy is to mitigate the impact of the pandemic.
All measures taken in Alert Orange will continue to be applied.
Closing of school and suspension of selected events to prevent congregation of large groups of people.
After Red, there's Black...but you can read about that when you get back
but than, at abt 11am, sky suddenly turned dark, and we were juz going to enter the area where e butterflies were. End up, we din go in. Some kids still went ahead la, but I scared it will rain 