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A case of swine flu in their hotel they made a dash through the travel plans: approximately 280 guests were in Hong Kong for seven days under compulsory quarantine. On Friday evening, left the Applause Included in the house.

 

Hong Kong - and jubilantly into the hands klatschend they left on Friday evening, the Metro Park Hotel: After one week compulsory quarantine because of the pig flu has Hong Kong on Friday about 300 hotel guests and employees in the released. They had seven days in a hotel endure after a Mexican guest of the hotel on 1 May be the first Southeast Asian pig flu patient had been confirmed. Among the other guests were at the quarantine of any other cases.

"I'm out there," said Kevin Ireland, an Indian businessman, and reckte his fist in the air. "I was absolutely not like, but now I am relieved." Nevertheless, he was satisfied with how the authorities had treated him. A group of about 50 Hong Kong residents waved flags and cried with the guests who made the coaches streamed: "Welcome home!"

Included were several tourists from Germany, including the couple Eingrüber from Dresden. "For us, a world collapsed," Kathrin Eingrüber had on Monday told the AP by telephone. The 41-year-old and her husband Chris originally wanted in Hong Kong only a three-stop.

The time in the hotel the couple had already become long on Monday: "It has no pool and no gym, where you once could move," said Eingrüber. Also, the Spaniard Francisco Javier Boada said about his time in quarantine simply: "It was very boring." On Thursday evening, however, was already widely celebrated: The Included threw their own masks, danced, drank beer and wine and toasts to the front of the hotel waiting journalists.

As reparation, all hotel guests in advance various gifts of Hong Kong City Hall will receive - including a voucher for two free nights in another hotel in the city. Some guests from overseas wanted to make use of them because they are on Friday evening travel may not in the home were more.