Chinese mainland´s first A/H1N1 flu patient recovering

There were 150 passengers on flight 3U882. The crew were put under quarantine.

Chengdu didn't received reports about new confirmed or suspected A/H1N1 cases as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.

In the meantime, Chengdu City Center for Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched five groups down to different urban districts to guide and supervise A/H1N1 disease prevention efforts there.

Northwards, Beijing opened a second venue for quarantine purpose near the Capital Airport Monday, said Yu Debin, deputy chief of Beijing Municipal Tourism Administration who is appointed as commander-in-chief of medical observation venues for A/H1N1 flu.

The first venue used for quarantine is Guomenlu Hotel near the airport. This hotel, with only 188 rooms, which was used to quarantine people in an earlier flu case involving a Mexican national who ended up in Hong Kong, keeps 163 people under quarantine.

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 139 out of the 147 people on flight NW029, and were still looking for the other eight passengers as of 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, said Deng Ying, chief of Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.