11 May 2009
A spokesman for the Department of Health (DH) said today (May 11) that the 19 passengers on board the Northwest Airlines plane (flight no. NW025) who had indicated that they would come to Hong Kong had been traced.
Four of them sat at a different cabin of the flight concerned and did not share common facilities with the four Japanese passengers who were confirmed to have been infected with human swine influenza (Influenza A H1N1), seven were currently not in Hong Kong and the remaining eight who arrived in Hong Kong had been located, the spokesman said.
The eight found in Hong Kong together with the two passengers identified on May 9 at the Airport and in a Tsim Sha Tsui hotel are being quarantined.
Six of them are under observation in Princess Margaret Hospital, two in North District Hospital and two have been transferred to Lady MacLehose Holiday Camp for quarantine up to May 15.
The 10 passengers were located in Hong Kong in the past two days. Among them five were located in hotels, two at their homes and three were intercepted at boundary control points.
Nine of them have so far tested negative for human swine influenza and result of laboratory analysis of the remaining one is pending.
The spokesman urged people who had taken the flight concerned to call the hotline 2125 1111 to facilitate follow up investigation by the department.