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Singapore quarantines Philippine football team over flu
Jun 21, 2009, 8:19 GMT
Singapore - Singapore has quarantined all players and coaches of a Philippine football team coming to the city-state for the Asian Youth Games after one player tested positive for influenza H1N1, officials said Sunday.
The 14-year-old boy came to Singapore from Manila on Friday with 18 teammates and two coaches and developed fever during a practice session, but is now in stable condition in hospital.
His teammates and coaches were brought to a Singapore beach resort which the government set up to isolate foreigners for quarantine purposes, a spokeswoman for the Games said.
'The Games went on and will go on,' she added.
The organizers of the Asian Youth Games expected about 1,400 athletes from 45 countries to participate in the event.
The Philippine football player was one of 23 new cases of H1N1 flu confirmed in Singapore Saturday, bringing the total number to 126, the health ministry said.
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