Chinese aircraft to repatriate nationals from Mexico amid flu outbreak

The government of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region reported the first confirmed case of influenza A/H1N1 on Friday. The case involved the Mexican who arrived in Hong Kong Thursday by air via Shanghai.

Meanwhile, The health authorities of south China's Guangdong Province are seeking 11 people who had been on the same flight with a Mexican who was later found infected with influenza A/H1N1, according to a notice issued by the Provincial Public Health Bureau Saturday morning.

The patient and 41 other passengers on the flight AM098 arrived in Shanghai from Mexico on Thursday. The 41 passengers then flew to Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province.

The Guangdong public health bureau decided to put the 41 passengers under a 7-day medical observation. However, so far the bureau has found only 30 of them. The bureau asked the other 11 people to contact local disease prevention and control centers to receive medical observation or call the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention at 020-84451025.

Editor:Liu Anqi