Swine Flu symptoms are now being reported throughout New Zealand from Auckland to Otago, and the Government says it is treating the scare as if it's the real thing.
3 News has been told that a number of Air New Zealand crew now have symptoms, and health officials have tracked down two thirds of the passengers on Saturday's NZ1 flight, which carried the students from Auckland's Rangitoto College who first showed symptoms.
While then ten confirmed Rangitoto cases are just Influenza A, whether they, or any other case, is more serious won't be known until swine flu tests in Melbourne have been completed.
Staff and students of Rangitoto College spoken to by 3 News say they are feeling a lot better than when they first arrived back from Mexico.
They're being treated with Tamiflu medication, and apart from the odd niggle with a sore throat or minor flu-like symptoms, everyone looks to be on the mend.
It seems the most concerning thing they say they are having to deal with is learning to deal with life confined to the four walls of home quarantine.
"We've been told to have good ventilation, which means we have to have the windows open, but otherwise we're not to see people and not to go outside," Rangitoto College teacher Charlotte Calvert told 3 News. "S ome families have told me that they're going to be shopping online for the next couple of days."
Ms Calvert may have to stay in quarantine for a week, or at least until tests clear her of swine flu.
She describes the whole experience as bizarre and says while the group knew about the flu strain in Mexico, they didn't feel it was any threat to them.
"We had people feeling unwell during the trip but we put that down to diarrhea and vomiting that people have when they're overseas," Ms Calvert says.
Today more students were pulled from the school because they played soccer on Saturday with a student who had been on the Mexico trip.
"There are five other boys who were in the same soccer team," Rangitoto College Principal David Hodge says. "We've taken their details, we've sent them home, asked them to stay at home and we'll be giving their details to the public health authorities."
And while it was school as normal for the rest of the Rangitoto students today, it was far for it for Mr Hodge.
"We've had calls from the States, I mean it's very strange for a school in New Zealand to headline CNN News, BBC, ABC, so there is a lot of interest out there," Mr Hodge says. "Obviously this is a worldwide health scare and we have unfortunately become the focus of that."
Meanwhile 14 students, two parents and two teachers from Auckland's Northcote College are undergoing tests, after returning from Mexico.
The group arrived back in New Zealand on Saturday morning on flight NZ5.
The tests were carried out after two students and one of the parents reported having a sore throat.
Results from their influenza test are expected later tonight.
3 News