Foreigners amenable to quarantine move

Having two dozen "astronauts" turn up on her front door at the weekend and a policeman guarding it ever since has not gone down well with Mexico's Rosy Whitehead.

But her American husband is more philosophical about China's response to the flu.

"They just want to keep everyone healthy," Neil Whitehead told China Daily by phone yesterday, his fourth day in house-bound quarantine in Shanghai.