SINGAPORE: Popular night club Butter Factory, which was identified as a cluster with nine H1N1 cases, has announced a voluntary seven-day closure.

The club will place its nearly 80 staff and management on home quarantine during that period. It will be closed from Wednesday and reopen next Wednesday.

Spokesperson Adrian Wee told Channel NewsAsia that one floor staff was confirmed to be infected on Tuesday morning.

The server was working on Saturday. Colleagues who were in contact with him have been sent for screening.

Wee said Butter Factory stands to lose about a quarter of a million dollars in revenue with the week-long closure.

"As a precautionary measure, we decided to close anyway and send all our staff on home quarantine," he said.

"We need to ensure the virus does not spread. The business at the moment is secondary as opposed to the safety and the well being of our staff and the patrons that visit us."

- CNA/yb

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