A plane sent to fetch Chinese citizens from Mexico arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday afternoon with 98 passengers on board.

The plane landed at the Pudong International Airport at 4:32 PM. All the passengers and crew members will be quarantined, said a city information office spokesman.

China sent the flight after an agreement with Mexico, plagued by the A/H1N1 flu outbreak, to send flights to each other's countries to bring back nationals.

The Shanghai Quarantine Bureau checked the health of all the people on the plane on its arrival, and sterilized the aircraft, luggage and waste.

Each of the passengers received a letter of consolation and a Shanghai World Expo mascot Haibao.

The plane picked up 79 Chinese nationals in Mexico City and 19 others in Tijuana. It left Guangzhou for the two Mexican cities on Monday, but the trip was delayed by bad weather.

China suspended direct flights from Mexico to Shanghai from Saturday after a 25-year-old Mexican man, who arrived in Shanghai Thursday on board flight Aeromexico 098, was later diagnosed with A/H1N1 flu in Hong Kong and put into quarantine.

(Xinhua News Agency May 6, 2009)