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Quarantine officials distribute masks and advisories on health issues to passengers arriving from Mexico City at Narita international airport, east of Tokyo April 25, 2009.

Photograph by: Reuters, Reuters

A top aide to Quebec's health minister is refusing Saturday afternoon to confirm a report that two sick Montrealers recently returned from Mexico are being quarantined in a West Island hospital in wake of swine-flu fears.

A CTV Montreal web report this afternoon quotes the communications director of Lakeshore General Hospital, Louis-Pascal Cyr, as confirming two quarantines.

But Marie-Ève Bédard, an aide to Health Minister Guy Bolduc, refused this afternoon in an interview with The Gazette to confirm or deny the report.

And Cyr said he couldn't talk anymore. Bédard did say, however, that only one person is involved in this West Island incident, without offering any other elaboration. A Gazette reporter is on the way to the Lakeshore this afternoon to sort out the confusion. But the government says it wants to stress that there still aren¹t any confirmed cases of swine flu in Quebec.

Outside Quebec, the World Health Organization is holding emergency meetings today to look at assess pandemic risks, with more than 20 deaths in Mexico confirmed to be linked to a new swine-flu strain known as A N1N1. More than 1,000 people in Mexico have fallen ill with flu-like symptoms in recent days. The mayor of Mexico has cancelled all public events for 10 days.