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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Asia reports no new swine flu cases By DIKKY SINN and MIN LEE,Associated Press Writers AP - 2 hours 57 minutes ago HONG KONG - Asia reported no new confirmed cases of swine flu on Sunday, indicating the virus's spread may be slowing, but 350 people remained under quarantine in a downtown Hong Kong hotel as a precaution. ADVERTISEMENT Authorities in Mexico, the epicenter of the disease, indicated Saturday that the epidemic was easing, and the World Health Organization decided against raising its alert, though officials warned people against letting their guard down. The virus has killed 19 people in Mexico and one in the U.S. and sickened hundreds more. Hong Kong and South Korea each confirmed one case of the virus earlier in the weekend _ the first on the continent _ setting off alarms in a region with memories of severe acute respiratory syndrome and bird flu outbreaks. Both cases were in people who had recently arrived from Mexico. Hong Kong _ which was criticized for delaying quarantine measures during the SARS outbreak, giving that virus time to spread _ sealed the downtown Metropark Hotel, where a sickened Mexican tourist stayed, trapping 350 guests and employees inside. The 25-year-old man arrived in the territory Thursday afternoon after a stopover in Shanghai. He was in stable condition Sunday. On Sunday, about a half-dozen police officers wearing masks guarded the hotel and workers cleaned the back alley behind the building. Hotel staff covered lobby windows with pieces of cloth, blocking pieces of paper reporters had stuck to the windows advertising their phone numbers. Thomas Tsang, controller of Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection, said that all 350 people at the hotel are healthy. One guest, James Parer from Brisbane, Australia, told The Associated Press in a phone interview there were no signs of unrest at the hotel on Sunday, although some Western tourists complained about the breakfast _ Chinese-style buns filled with barbecued pork. He said guests were served pork and ham on rice for dinner Saturday night. "Everyone is staying in their rooms," said Parer, 38, who visited Hong Kong for a trade fair, adding that guests had nowhere to congregate inside the hotel because its restaurant had been converted to a medical testing area. Officials in the territory as well as on mainland China and in Taiwan quickly tracked down passengers who had arrived on the same flights as the sickened tourist and taxi drivers who drove him in Hong Kong. Beijing quarantined all of 128 passengers on the flight who stayed on the mainland, according to Chinese state media. No new cases were confirmed, however. China also responded by suspending all direct flights from Mexico. A China Southern Airlines charter flight will leave Sunday night to bring home 120 Chinese citizens from Mexico, state broadcaster CCTV said. Authorities in the Latin American country chafed at some of the tough measures. Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa complained that China had isolated Mexican nationals without reason in addition to urging Mexicans not to travel to China. "These are discriminatory measures," she said. Experts said Sunday it may be too soon to determine how widely the disease has spread. Hong Kong infectious diseases specialist John Simon said the man who fell ill after he arrived in Hong Kong may have been less contagious on the plane because he wasn't sick yet, but cautioned that people he infected may still be incubating the disease. "It's too early to tell yet," Simon said. "It's possible that this guy might have infected a couple of other people." "There is no way to measure it at this stage," World Health Organization spokesman Peter Cordingley said, but noted that the disease appears to be spreading around the world through travelers from Mexico and that Asia might have fewer travelers from the Latin American country than other parts of the world. "We have no way to know what's going to happen in Asia, but we do expect this virus to be present pretty much everywhere in a few weeks," Cordingley said. Hours after Hong Kong announced it had confirmed Asia's first case of the virus, health authorities in South Korea reported the continent's second in a 51-year-old woman who returned late last month from Mexico. Authorities there are still testing others who may have the virus. ___ Associated Press writers Annie Huang in Taipei and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul contributed to this report. 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