A Chinese passenger (L) from the Mexico City-Shanghai flight AM098, where a Mexican man was confirmed to be infected with influenza A/H1N1, receives flowers and a letter as the quarantine ends in Shanghai, east China, on May 7, 2009. Chinese health authorities on Thursday started lifting a seven-day quarantine on passengers who took the same flight with the Mexican man.[Xinhua]

A car carrying the quarantined passengers from the Mexico City-Shanghai flight AM098, where a Mexican man was confirmed to be infected with influenza A/H1N1, runs out of the gate of the Guomenlu Hotel in Beijing, China, on May 7, 2009. The passengers quarantined in the Chinese mainland who took the same flight with the Mexican were out of quarantine on Thursday. [Xinhua]