Singapore donates SARS scanners

Singapore donates SARS scanners

JAKARTA: The Singaporean government has donated two thermal
scanners to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali as part of
efforts to cooperate with Indonesia to ensure a successful ASEAN
Summit and keep ASEAN free of the Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (SARS).

The scanners were symbolically handed over by Singapore
Ambassador Edward Lee to foreign minister Hassan Wirayuda on
Saturday.

The latest contribution, in addition to four thermal scanners
donated to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta on
July 3, is testimony to the close relation between the two
countries, the Singapore Embassy said in a statement made
available to The Jakarta Post on Monday.

ASEAN groups Singapore, Indonesian, Malaysia, Thailand,
Brunei, the Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

The SARS epidemic started in March this year and raged for
three months in Singapore, sending the city-state's economy into
a tailspin. -JP