Singapore has stockpiled more than 10 million tablets of Tamiflu, an antiviral drug for the treatment of bird flu, Channel NewsAsia reported on Wednesday.

Singapore has also stockpiled 50,000 courses of Relenza as a second-line drug.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has also contracted a vaccine producer to manufacture up to 10 million doses of pandemic vaccine for Singapore's population, Channel NewsAsia reported.

Besides antivirals, Singapore has stockpiled N95 masks and other personal protection equipment items.

These are parts of Singapore's contingency plans to prepare for a possible bird flu outbreaks.

Meanwhile, Singapore has contingency plans to isolate potentially infectious patients.

According to the MOH, the city-state has the Communicable Diseases Center and more than 400 isolation rooms in public hospitals to deal with infectious patients.

The MOH said that it has learnt a lot from its experience with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and since then, surveillance systems have been put in place at hospitals to detect and report suspected cases of infections, the report said.

To date, the bird flu virus has never been detected in Singapore.

Source: Xinhua