(ECNS) -- A Malaysian man who showed signs of a severe mental illness during routine quarantine checks at an airport in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, was stopped from entering the country and sent back to his homeland, Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.
It marked the first case in which a foreigner suffering from a mental illness was rejected entry at Hangzhou Airport after a 2010 revision of the Rules for the Implementation of Frontier Health and Quarantine Law, which bans foreigners with severe mental illnesses from entering China.
Sun Ting, an official with the Hangzhou airport office of the Zhejiang Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, said the Malaysian tourist appeared to be in a state of hysteria and behaved strangely during entry quarantine inspections. Further examinations by physicians confirmed he was suffering from a mental illness, and doctors suspect that he might have had the condition for a month.
Zhejiang's quarantine authorities arranged medical care for the man, and sent an exit supervision team to accompany him onboard an airplane to back to Malaysia.
