SINGAPORE: From Saturday, Singapore will stop temperature screenings at all border checkpoints.

The Health and Home Affairs Ministries said in a joint statement on Friday that temperature screening at the borders is now less useful as the H1N1 flu virus has become endemic among global communities, and with localised community spread in Singapore.

In the initial phase of the H1N1 outbreak, temperature screening was implemented at the border checkpoints to contain the spread of the virus into the community.

Latest figures show that there are currently 60 confirmed H1N1 cases in public hospitals.

This includes a 51-year-old man, with diabetes and hypertension, who is in Changi General Hospital's Intensive Care Unit.

The greatest number of cases - 29 - is currently warded at KK Women's and Children's Hospital.

- CNA/yb