H1N1

Last Friday our land lord had issued a circular “Guidelines for Tenants: Business Continuity During a Pandemic” to all Low Yat Plaza tenants to raise awareness, alertness and cautionary measures in tackling the eventualities and possibilities in view of the global pandemic of swine flu H1N1.

To date the health authorities had confirmed two Malaysian with the Influenza A virus.
Both patients were on the same Malaysia Airlines flight MH091 from Newark, New Jersey, to KLIA via Sweden on May 13. The first case involved a 21 years old male who has been admitted to Sungai Buloh Hospital while the 2nd female patent is now warded at the Penang Hospital.

The Malaysian health authorities had put 117 passengers on MH091 who disembarked at KLIA, both Malaysians and foreigners under home quarantine. The 15 crew members are also under home quarantine. At the same time all 102 passengers on AirAsia Flight AK5358 from the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Sepang to Penang last Wednesday have also been ordered to undergo home quarantine.

Despite this gloomy development a joker, a cctv installer told me that H1N1 actually sounded very much like Star Wars's R2D2 wife. Sigh... during this trying time we indeed need all the jokes in the world to keep our spirit high.

Cheer!