Japanese school in Singapore closed for 3 days due to flu infections

Wednesday 23rd September, 01:46 PM JST

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smithinjapan at 12:02 AM JST - 24th September

Now, hang on.... when kids in Japan started coming down with the flu it was all important WHERE they got it from, since it couldn't have come from within Japan. Hell, before travelling earlier this week (short trip) I was STILL told by a lot of people to be careful of catching the flu abroad when it's extremely rampant here.

Why no more emphasis on where it was contracted? If it's simply because the virus is so widepsread now that it doesn't matter then that's all good. But I wonder...

Hope the kids are all recovering well.
nigelboy at 12:42 AM JST - 24th September

Now, hang on.... when kids in Japan started coming down with the flu it was all important WHERE they got it from, since it couldn't have come from within Japan

True.

Why no more emphasis on where it was contracted? If it's simply because the virus is so widepsread now that it doesn't matter then that's all good

Yes.

But I wonder...

As smithinjapan tries to find a xenophobic angle to the story...
hellhound at 07:20 AM JST - 24th September

Who cares? That was in singapoor
leitmotiv at 11:23 PM JST - 24th September

Why no more emphasis on where it was contracted? If it's simply because the virus is so widepsread....

That is correct. The virus is everywhere so little can be learned from pinpointing where each case came from. The tests for that are expensive and better spent in other ways at this phase of pandemic.