China's Health Minister Chen Zhu Friday apologized to his Mexican counterpart for failing to warn him about the tough measures Beijing imposed on Mexicans to combat swine flu.
"I regret that I did not talk first" to Minister Jose Angel Cordova, Chen said on the sidelines of a meeting in Cancun about the swine flu pandemic.
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The measures were angrily denounced in Mexico, which was the center of the swine flu outbreak that has since spread around the world, and been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).
In May Mexican authorities had to charter a plane to repatriate 136 of its nationals from China after they were thrown into isolation.
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He also thanked Mexican authorities for sharing information about the flu outbreak in a transparent way, "which helped trigger the international reaction."
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