It seems like troubles going on at the Auckland International Airport are not going to end anytime soon as the issue of flu being transmitted among air passengers is getting more and more sensitive with the passage of time. Recent reports have highlighted that passengers are continuously downplaying a flu health fright, which has resulted in causing an extended round of concerns and apprehension for airport officials. As a result, they have started a major response campaign to safeguard the safety of passengers on board.

Along the same lines, Auckland hospitals remained on standby yesterday and medical authorities was summoned up for the sake of carrying out an extensive assessment of the health and wellbeing of as many as 73 passengers who were seemingly suffering from flu-like symptoms while they were on board for Auckland through an Air New Zealand flight which touched land in Auckland at around 9.20am.

Authorities have expressed their suspicions that passengers are carrying strains of the potentially terminal and highly transmittable H3N2 flu virus which is playing an absolute carnage all over Japan at the moment.

While expressing his opinion regarding the entire scenario and providing assurance those health authorities will quickly find some way out to tighten the screws over the spread of H3N2 flu virus, Health Minister Tony Ryall revealed that the quarantine reaction was just a precautionary move and all those passengers were examined having just seasonal influenza flu and there is no real need to fret.

He further added, “We've been briefed on the situation, and advised that it is Japan's flu season, and there are no reports of new strains of flu there. We're keeping a watching brief but have been told there's nothing to suggest it's anything other than seasonal flu”.