China´s precautions understandable: returned Mexicans

The great caution of the Chinese government was due to what they had experienced in the SARS outbreak in 2003, Marai Lourdes Castaneda, who returned on the same plane dispatched by the Mexican government, said at a press conference.

"The fear is understandable after what they have been through," Castaneda said.

"I wish we (in Mexico) had the same care as the Chinese have in avoiding infections," said Businessman Alfredo Hakim when talking about his experience in China.

"We stayed in quarantine for seven days" in a hotel, Hakim said, adding that the Chinese government had provided them with food and sanitary materials for their protection.

On May 1, 13 crew members and 166 passengers on board a flight carrying a Mexican passenger who has been tested positive of the flu were quarantined in China.

( by Raul Vilchis)

Editor:Zhang Ning