BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Another person tested
positive for the A/H1N1 influenza in Beijing, the capital's municipal health
bureau said Wednesday.
This is the second confirmed case in Beijing and the
fifth on China's mainland.
The patient is a 21-year-old Chinese-Canadian who
studied at a college in Toronto, according to a health bureau publicity official
who is surnamed Sun.
Sun refused to disclose the patient's name, saying he
was no longer a Chinese national and his family hasn't agreed to do so.
The man arrived in Beijing in the afternoon of May 16
aboard a direct Air Canada flight from Toronto.
His parents picked him up from the airport and he
remained at home for most of the time, Sun said.
The patient developed a fever and cough Tuesday
morning and went to General Hospital of the Armed Police Forces at 6:30 p.m..
He was transferred to the Beijing Ditan Hospital
Wednesday noon, where he tested positive for A/H1N1 flu and was quarantined.
China has previously reported four cases on the
mainland -- in Sichuan, Shandong, Beijing and Guangdong, with the first two
patients having been discharged.
The third patient, or the first confirmed in Beijing,
was a 18-year-old woman surnamed Liu who had returned from the United States.
She was confirmed to have the flu Saturday but described as in "stable
condition".
The patient in Guangdong, surnamed Yang, is also
recovering, said Yin Zhibiao, vice president with the No. 8 People's Hospital
where he has been treated since Friday.
The doctor called for respect of patients' privacy.
"Yang asked me to do him a
favor," he said. "He doesn't like media to pry into his personal information,
which he believed had already brought forth some bad influence to his family."
A foreign tourist of the tour group that
have been lifted the quarantine for suspected A/H1N1 case, gives a DVD
player as a gift to staff members who have taken care of them in Xigaze,
Tibet Autonomous Region, west China, May 20, 2009. (Xinhua/Wei
Dong) Photo
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XIGAZE, Tibet, May 20 (Xinhua) --
Tibet Autonomous Region lifted the quarantine on a foreign tourist group
Wednesday as one of its members, previously suspected of having A/H1N1
influenza, was confirmed to have just an "seasonal flu", said a senior official.
Dekyi, vice chairwoman of the regional government of
Tibet, told Xinhua that the quarantine ended at about 10:40 a.m. after tests
conducted by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention showed the
42-year-old Italian woman was A/H1N1 negative and infected with A/H3N2 virus, a
"seasonal flu". Full story
BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Beijing's first confirmed
A/H1N1 flu patient is in a stable condition, and will be discharged from
hospital this weekend, the municipal health bureau announced Tuesday.
The 18-year-old woman, surnamed Liu, a student who had
returned from the United States, was confirmed to have the flu Saturday and is
being treated at the Beijing Ditan Hospital. Full story
GUANGZHOU, May 19 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Health
Tuesday confirmed that a man in southern Guangdong Province, who returned last
week from a tour of the United States and Canada, tested positive for A/H1N1
influenza.
The man, surnamed Yang, became the fourth confirmed A/H1N1
casein the Chinese mainland in less than 10 days. Full story
