Singapore, Apr 01: Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong will go ahead with an official visit to India next week despite a pneumonia outbreak here, the Singapore foreign ministry said today. "The Prime Minister has confirmed that he will be visiting India next week," a spokesman for the Singapore ministry of foreign affairs said in reply to media queries. "The Indian government has been alerted of the SARS problem in Singapore but would like the visit to proceed as scheduled," the spokesman added. In Singapore, four people have died out of more than 90 cases reported.

It quoted an unidentified Singaporean official as saying that Singapore did not want the Indian hosts to be afraid of contracting the disease from their visitors. Bureau Report