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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Mexican citizens to return from China

Amid the global swine flu outbreak, an airplane is headed to China to pick up dozens of Mexican citizens who want to return home after being held by Chinese officials for "health reasons," Mexico's Foreign Ministry announced Monday.The plane will stop in various cities in China, where there are "concentrated" numbers of Mexican citizens who wish to leave the country, the foreign ministry said in a statement.Chinese officials have quarantined 68 people -- including 13 Aeromexico crew members -- from a Mexico City to Shanghai flight that carried a passenger who tested positive for the virus, known as the H1N1 virus, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.None of the other passengers who were being held have exhibited any flu-like symptoms, one Chinese health official said.About 110 other people who were on the plane went on to other destinations, and may face quarantines elsewhere, the news agency said. Fifteen were quarantined at a hotel in Beijing,

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