Travelers quarantined in a Hong Kong hotel for a week after a Mexican tourist tested positive for the H1N1 flu expressed dismay at the government's tough measures, while an infectious disease expert said the authorities had over-reacted.
Police wearing surgical masks sealed off the Metropark hotel (in the popular Wanchai tourist district) after test results on a 25-year-old Mexican man came back positive for swine flu-- ordering approximately 200 guests and 100 staff to stay in the hotel. Officials said no one would be allowed to leave the hotel.
The measures taken by the authorities in Hong Kong underscore the unwarranted concern about the new flu and the first confirmed Asian case of the swine flu. Hong Kong was badly hit by the SARS virus in 2003 and has had repeated episodes of H5N1 bird flu over the past decade.
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