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"Taxi drivers should wear facemasks while driving for their passengers," Deputy Bangkok Governor Dr Malinee Sukavejworakit said yesterday.

She said Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra would give free face masks via taxi cooperatives and guesthouses.

Malinee added that she had already instructed all district offices in Bangkok to keep extra surveillance over hotels, guesthouses, and tourist hangouts.

Entrepreneurs in tourist zones are expected to contact the city administration's SRRT centre via 023541836 or the Public Health Ministry's 1669 Hotline around the clock if they suspect any tourist of getting the Mexican Human Flu.

The infected people will have flulike symptoms such as runny nose, having difficulty breathing, headache, watery bowel movement and phlegm.

"We will give pamphlets about the influenza to relevant entrepreneurs too," Malinee said.

BMA will also convene a meeting of representatives from medical facilities, clinics and pharmacies in the capital.

"We will brief them about how to identify patients suspected of getting the Mexican Human Flu," Maliee said.

  Meanwhile, the Chulalongkorn Hospital announced that thorough lab tests confirmed that a female patient - who developed flulike symptoms after a trip to Mexico - has caught common seasonal flu.

"She does not have fever now," the hospital's deputy director Dr Dhiraphongs Charoenvidhya said yesterday, "She will be allowed to go home soon".

The woman, whose identity is not disclosed, was admitted on April 28.