Mexican Citizens in Flu Lockdown

This is an international showdown you wouldn’t have expected, say, two weeks ago: Tensions are high between Mexico and China, as China rounded up and quarantined more than 70 Mexicans travelling through the country on business and vacation, even though only one of them is so far reported to be sick. Mexico’s foreign minister called the tactic “discriminatory and ungrounded,” and the country chartered a plane to bring its citizens home. Meanwhile, Mexican authorities said the epidemic was waning, but world health officials said it was too early to make that call. The number of American infections rose to 245 in 35 states, though it is due to a catching up in a backlog of lab tests and not a spurt of new cases. One doctor from the Center for Disease Control said “Virtually all of the United States probably has this virus circulating now. That doesn't mean that everybody's infected, but within the communities, the virus has arrived.”