China to bring back citizens from Mexico

BEIJING (AFP) - China is to send a plane to Mexico to bring back some of its citizens, state media said
Saturday, after a man tested positive for swine flu in Hong Kong in the first confirmed case in Asia.
According to a notice by Chinas aviation authority, China Eastern Airlines is to send an A340-600 plane on
Saturday... to Mexico to bring back Chinas stranded tourists, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The
plane was to pick up Chinese citizens who had been due to head back to Shanghai on Sunday on an
AeroMexico flight, but had been left stranded after China suspended flights from the flu-hit country, Xinhua said.
China took the measure after a 25-year-old Mexican man tested positive for A(H1N1) flu in Hong Kong on
Thursday after arriving there from Shanghai, where he had transferred from a flight from Mexico.
China is now tracking down passengers who were on the flight from Mexico to Shanghai and is to put everyone
under a seven-day quarantine, the health ministry said Saturday. South Korea also announced Saturday its first
case of swine flu, bringing to two the number of confirmed infections in Asia. The flight to Mexico is to take off
Saturday from Shanghai, Xinhua said.