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17 passengers on flight from Mexico quarantined
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-02 21:40

17 passengers on flight from Mexico quarantined
Vice President and Spokesman of Beijing Ditan Hospital Cheng Jun (Back) speaks at a press conference as a journalist uses a laptop in Beijing, capital of China, May 2, 2009. Beijing Health Bureau announced on Saturday that 15 passengers on the same flight with a confirmed case of influenza A/H1N1 infection from Mexico to Hong Kong via Shanghai had been quarantined in Ditan Hospital. Another two passengers on the same flight from Hebei Province and Jiangsu Province also had been isolated separately. All these 17 quarantined passengers haven't shown symptoms of flu by far. [Xinhua]