BEIJING, May 2 (Xinhua) -- China's Health Ministry
will begin a daily status report on influenza A/H1N1 starting Sunday, though the
mainland has yet to report a case, the ministry said in a circular Saturday.
The ministry will also report the condition of those
who were in close contact with influenza A/H1N1 patients, the circular said.
China confirmed its first flu case Friday in the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). It involved a 25-year-old Mexican
male, who arrived Thursday in the SAR via Shanghai.
Photo taken on May 2, 2009 shows the
infectious disease center of the Princess Margaret Hospital which admitted
the Mexican man with Influenza A/H1N1. (Xinhua/Wong Pun
Keung) Photo
Gallery>>>
The man was among 176 passengers on a Mexico
City-Shanghai flight, which also had 13 crew. He then boarded a Shanghai-Hong
Kong flight that carried 142 passengers, some of whom had been on the original
aircraft.
The ministry asked local health departments to
identify anyone who had been in close contact with infected people and put them
under observation, the circular said.
All passengers who were on the
Mexico-Shanghai flight had been put into seven-day quarantine, it said.
A Medical personnel works in Beijing
Ditan Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, May 2, 2009. Beijing Ditan
Hospital has been designated to treat influenza A/H1N1 by Beijing Health
Bureau since April 28. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang) Photo Gallery>>>
Health departments were asked to carefully trace the
journey of these passengers and tighten monitoring.
"Hospitals should be ready to treat patients at any
moment," the circular said.
A medical worker walks out the Princess
Margaret Hospital, which admitted the Mexican man with Influenza A/H1N1,
on May 2, 2009. (Xinhua/Wong Pun Keung) Photo Gallery>>>
The ministry has included A/H1N1 on the same epidemic
list with SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), HIV and viral hepatitis.
It raised prevention and control measures to the same
level as more serious epidemics such as cholera.
BEIJING, May 2 (Xinhua) --
At least 113 people, who were on the same Mexico City-Shanghai flight with a
Mexican national later diagnosed with influenza A/H1N1 in Hong Kong, are under
quarantine, Chinese health authorities said Saturday.
None of them have displayed any flu symptoms so far.
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HONG KONG, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The health and quarantine authorities of Hong Kong
and neighboring Shenzhen City have been simultaneously implemented health
declaration measures at cross- boundary control point here Saturday after Hong
Kong reported its first confirmed case of A/H1N1 flu infection.
A spokesman for the Department of Health of Hong Kong said
beginning 20:00 Saturday (GMT 1200), all incoming travelers via the Lo Wu
Boundary Control Point would be required to submit a completed Hong
Kong-Shenzhen Entry/Exit Health Declaration Form. Full story
Vice President and Spokesman of Beijing
Ditan Hospital Cheng Jun speaks at a press conference 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/Luo Xiaoguang) Photo
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BEIJING, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Seventeen people, who were on the same Mexico
City-Shanghai flight with a Mexican national later diagnosed with influenza
A/H1N1, are under quarantine, health authorities in the capital said Saturday.
None of the 17 have displayed any flu symptoms, the
Beijing Health Bureau said. Full story
BEIJING, May 2 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Health will ask experts from the
World Health Organization (WHO) office in China to join a team for the
prevention and control of influenza A/H1N1.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, an epidemic control body under the ministry, will also hold regular
meetings with WHO about technical issues, according to a statement on the
ministry's website Saturday.Full story
BEIJING, May 2
(Xinhua) -- China would impose stringent checks on people entering the country
by air, land and sea in an attempt to prevent influenza A/H1N1 from spreading to
the country, the top quality supervisor said Saturday.
Anyone entering from places where the flu was reported
should have their temperatures checked twice, said the General Administration of
Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ). Full story
BEIJING,
May 2 (Xinhua) -- Seventeen people, who were on the same Mexico City-Shanghai
flight with a Mexican national later diagnosed with influenza A/H1N1, are under
quarantine, health authorities in the capital said Saturday.
None of the 17 have displayed any flu symptoms, the
Beijing Health Bureau said. Full story
SHANGHAI, May 2 (Xinhua) -- China Eastern Airlines said it
would send a chartered plane Saturday to Mexico to repatriate Chinese passengers
who had planned to fly to Shanghai.
With a case of influenza A/H1N1 confirmed on a flight from
Mexico, the government decided to suspend flights from Mexico to Shanghai, the
Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Full story
BEIJING, May 2 (Xinhua) -- With a case of influenza A/H1N1
confirmed in a flight coming from Mexico, the Chinese government has decided to
suspend flights from Mexico to Shanghai in east China, the Foreign Ministry said
Saturday.
China has notified the Mexican government and airline
companies about the decision, sources from the ministry said. When the flights
will be resumed depends on the situation of the pandemic control. Full story
HONG KONG, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong Secretary for Food
and Health York Chow Saturday said some 100 people from the Metropark Hotel,
where the Mexican man with Influenza A/H1N1 once stayed, are being isolated and
in stable condition.
Speaking on a local radio show on Saturday morning, Chow
said up till 7 a.m., 188 guests, visitors and staff at the Metropark Hotel
located in Wanchai, Hong Kong Island were being quarantined in the hotel,
hospitals or the Lady Mac Lehose Holiday Village in Sai Kung. Of them, 65 felt
slightly unwell, a total of 180 have been given medication. Full story
BEIJING, May 2 -- Officials in Hong Kong Friday ordered a
week-long quarantine of a hotel after one of its guests - a newly arrived
tourist from Mexico - tested positive for swine flu, Asia's first case of the
disease. The Mexican man landed in Hong Kong following a stopover in Shanghai.
Hong Kong's flu alert level was immediately raised from
"serious" to "emergency," the highest level. Full story
BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- As Hong Kong health authorities
confirmed Friday evening the first case of influenza A/H1N1 epidemic, China's
Health Minister Chen Zhu had just warned against the possible spread of the new
strain of flu virus, echoing President Hu Jintao's call for proactive
prevention.
At an emergency teleconference Friday afternoon, Minister
Chen, a doctor-turned official, asked local health authorities to designate
hospitals to make all necessary preparations for any patients who might
contaminate the new flu virus variant, which allegedly originated from North
America in April. Full story
BEIJING, May 2 (Xinhua) --
China's Ministry of Health said early Saturday that prevention and control
measures were being taken after the Hong Kong health authorities confirmed on
Friday the first case of influenza A/H1N1 epidemic.
The patient, a 25-year-old Mexican, departed from Mexico on board AM098 on April
29 and arrived in Shanghai at 6 a.m. on April 30. Then he took the China Eastern
Airlines MU505 at 11:20 a.m. to Hong Kong. Full story
GUANGZHOU, May 2 (Xinhua)
-- 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. Full story
BEIJING, May
2 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese epidemiological expert here suggested that people
do not need to be panic when a new flu hit a large part of the world, but should
meanwhile pay more attention to their health.
"What a common person needs to do now is what he usually
does to protect himself from a normal flu," said Professor Huang Jianshi from
the Peking Union Medical College, according to Saturday's China Youth Daily.
"The key word is to stay healthy." Full story
HONG KONG, May 1 (Xinhua)
-- Hong Kong reported the first confirmed case of influenza A/H1N1 infection in
the city on Friday, prompting authorities to immediately raise the flu alert
level from "serious" to the highest level of "emergency".
"The patient is a Mexican arriving in Hong Kong on
Thursday by air via Shanghai," Chief Executive Donald Tsang told reporters after
an emergency meeting with senior officials of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region (HKSAR) government. Full story
BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The possibility of the H1N1 influenza epidemic (swine
flu) spreading to China is increasing and the prevention and control work is
"quite arduous," said China's Health Minister Chen Zhu here Friday.
Chen told a national teleconference on the prevention of
the epidemic that although there were no such flu cases found in China, its
possibility was increasing. Full story
BEIJING, May
1 -- China has developed an effective method for instant diagnosis of H1N1
influenza, known as "swine flu", Minister of Health Chen Zhu said on
Thursday.
The new method, which features a testing chemical reagent,
will be used at the center for disease control and prevention (CDC) offices at
all levels, he told a news conference. Full story
