Mainland's 1st H1N1 flu patient recovering

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-12 23:26

And the second venue, Jinglin Mansion, is at the south of the Capital Airport and has 191 guestrooms. Yu didn't give an exact number of people being kept under quarantine at Jinglin Mansion at the moment.

There were altogether 233 passengers on flight NW029, including 106 foreign nationals, said Xu Xiaoyuan, deputy chief of the infectious disease section with the No.1 Hospital affiliated to Peking University, at a press conference held by the Chinese Health Ministry in Beijing Monday afternoon.

The health ministry confirmed that most of the passengers from the flight had already been tracked down and isolated at local health institutions in 21 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions.

The efforts to track down those who had contact with Bao turn out to be arduous.

In Beijing, for instance, the municipal health department had contacted 121 out of the 147 people on flight NW029, and were still looking for 26 other passengers as of 2 p.m. Monday, including 24 foreign nationals, said Deng Ying, chief of Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to Deng, Bao stayed for more than nine hours at Xinhanglv Hotel in Shunyi district before he caught flight 3U8882. All 103 people around the hotel, including nine foreign nationals, were therefore told to keep a week-long observation at the hotel.

None had shown fever symptoms, said Deng.

Deng said the municipal health department had also informed concerned localities to seek 10 other people who took the same van from the hotel to the airport together with Bao.

Bao was the second confirmed case of A(H1N1) influenza in China. A 25-year-old male Mexican was confirmed on May 1 in Hong Kong to be infected with influenza A(H1N1), and those who were in close contact with him were put under quarantine in 19 mainland regions.

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