As per recent reports, it has been revealed that authorities in Auckland have held back as many as 274 passengers travelling in from Narita International Airport in outer Tokyo following an incident in which a variety of health alerts were given to passengers as many of them were claimed of displaying symptoms quite similar to that shown during flu.

On the other hand, while expressing his opinion regarding the entire scenario, Tony Ryall, the Health Minister of New Zealand, has shown signs of wariness but has completely rebuffed claims of any kind of critical health scare.

In this regard, he said in a recently released statement, “We're keeping a watching brief but have been told there's nothing to suggest it's anything other than seasonal flu”.

However, the news is all over media, claiming that in excess of 273 passengers on board had earlier resulted in disembarking the aircraft, and hence they were alienated into two separate rooms for the purpose of carrying out quarantine operations. It has been revealed that in excess of 60 school children from Japan on board are displaying flu-like symptoms.

Earlier, it was informed by a spokesperson for ambulance communications that there stood “major concern” on account of the potentially lethal health fright due to flu-like symptoms being displayed by a large number of passengers.

In the meantime, Japanese students who went through a quarantine process at Auckland Airport due to potential threat of spreading flu were claimed of having only common cold, and they were therefore released by authorities.

The flight flying Tokyo had 274 passengers on board and due to the flu scare, the flight officials warned about a potential health risk when the aircraft landed on Monday morning, since more than 60 passengers were displaying flu-like symptoms.