PLEASE READ.

Please read through this before you come for camp.

I have received queries from some of you freshmen, as well as some of your parents with regards to H1N1. As you all may have read, with 3 confirmed cases, an NUS camp was cut short and classified as a H1N1 cluster. Letters from concerned members of the public have been published in the papers, with some calling for all orientation camps to be put on hold.

The threat of a H1N1 is very real. Yet there's no waiting for it to blow over; no matter how long a shadow it casts on our lives, we should not let it disrupt our daily activities. If everyone plays their part in exercising individual social responsibility, we can keep Influenza A at bay for our camp.

Campers, I need your help as we strive to keep our camp H1N1-free. There are things you can do to help us before the camp.

A. In the next few days, seniors will be calling you up to confirm your 1) attendance 2) travel history 3) whether you are currently on Home Quarantine Order (HQO) or self-imposed quarantine.

The list of countries with community spread and/or known cases is as followed:

-United States of America

-Mexico

-Canada

-Chile

-United Kingdom

-Australia

-Argentina

-Japan

-Philippines

-Thailand

-Hong Kong SAR

-New Zealand

-Spain

-Panama

-Dominican Republic

-Indonesia

Should you have travelled (including transit) to these affected countries one week before camp (i.e. before 6th July), you will not be able to join us for the camp. This is to avoid putting our campers at risk.

B. If you developed flu-like symptoms or a flu even, please do not valiantly make your way down to school on Monday. Even if it's not H1N1, you will be asked to leave and to join us only when you have recovered.

C. It is utmost important that you bring your own thermometer. There will be temperature taking exercises and there is strictly no sharing of thermometers.

D. Throughout the five days, should you need to leave camp for various reasons, please prepare the information and let your OGLS know. This is for contact tracing, so that we know when and where you left for and return from.

D. Please keep yourselves healthy. Have more Vitamin C, veggies, fluids. Listen to your mom about your eating habits. She is ALWAYS RIGHT.

E. Please avoid places where close contact is almost mandatory. I'm sure you have heard about one of the clusters is a nightspot. The fun you will have at camp is infinitely more than that just one night of partying.

On Monday, when you report to school. This is what you will see:

1. When you enter the school, freshmen and seniors alike will be checked for 1) temperatures 2) H1N1 symptoms 3) travel history. Only when you're cleared, can you then proceed to registration at the benches.

2. Those who have traveled to affected countries in the week before camp will be asked to leave. Those who have high body temperatures i.e. 37.6 degrees Celsius or higher will be asked to leave. Should the need arises, the committee will immediately alert the relevant medical authorities.

3. Under the Infectious Disease Act,
21A. -(1) A person who knows, or has reason to suspect, that he is a case or carrier or contact of a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule shall not expose other persons to the risk of infection by his presence or conduct in any public place or any other place used in common by persons other than the members of his own family or household. [7/2003]

(2) A person having the care of another person whom he knows, or has reason to suspect, is a case or carrier or contact of a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule shall not cause or permit that person to expose other persons to the risk of infection by that person’s presence or conduct in any such place. [7/2003]

(3) A person shall not lend, sell, transmit or expose, without previous disinfection, any clothing, bedding or rags which he knows to have been exposed to infection from a disease set out in the Fifth Schedule, or any other article which he knows to have been so exposed and which is liable to carry such infection. [7/2003]

(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (1), (2) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence.

We are taking this matter very seriously and should any campers be found to be withholding relevant information in a bid to attend the camp would be handed over to the relevant authorities.

Against a backdrop of challenges posed by the YOG, the financial recession and now, the H1N1 outbreak, Seniors have overcome them thus far...putting in months of hard work in preparing this camp just for all of you.

Yet should there be a case of H1N1, the camp will be cancelled immediately. Though we have in place a comprehensive H1N1 directive..still, all these would be in vain, should one of us fail to exercise social responsibility.

Should you have any questions pertaining to the camp, please feel free to contact us.
Everyone plays a part in keeping the camp H1N1-free.
Freshies and seniors alike, we need your help.
Let's strive for ZERO cases!

Cheers,
Wei Liang

Chairperson
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