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Mexico flight passengers quarantined
By Zhu Zhe in Beijing and Teddy Ng in Hong Kong (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-05-04 07:29 All passengers who were on a Mexico City-Shanghai flight with a Mexican national who was later diagnosed with A (H1N1) influenza have been located, health authorities said Sunday. Of them, all on the Chinese mainland have been placed under quarantine, and none of them had shown any flu symptoms such as fever by noon Sunday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
The 25-year-old Mexican arrived in Shanghai on Thursday aboard flight AM098, which carried 176 passengers and 13 crew. He then took another flight to Hong Kong after a short stopover. The ministry requires all passengers on board with the Mexican to be quarantined for seven days as a precaution.
They are Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Zhejiang and Sichuan, according to local media reports. Shanghai reported the highest number - 55 passengers and 13 crew. All are at a hotel in Pudong district, Xu Jianguang, director of the Shanghai health bureau, said yesterday. "All of them are in fine condition, both physically and mentally," he said. Xu said about 59 family members of passengers were also told to be under health observation at home. |