China's Ministry of Health announced on Friday that the two Taiwanese tuberculosis patients that defied a flight ban to travel by plane from Taiwan to the Chinese mainland had been located by police in Jiangsu Province and were receiving medical treatment.

The two patients, a 55-year-old man suffering from a drug-resistant form of tuberculosis and his 57-year-old wife who has standard tuberculosis and is infectious, were found by Jiangsu provincial health officials in the north of the province early on Friday morning.

The couple were transferred to hospital and received treatment.

They arrived at Lukou international airport in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu, on Wednesday morning after first flying from Kaohsiung in Taiwan to Hong Kong last Saturday.

Epidemic prevention experts sent by the disease control authority in Taiwan arrived in Nanjing on Thursday afternoon to cooperate with the mainland medical officials and doctors.

The health ministry warned passengers who took the Dragon Air flight KA810 on July 21 to seek medical check-ups.