I had heard rumours that the city was shortly to be locked down entirely, and on a WhatsApp group for British expats, one panicked member had told me his flight out the next day had been cancelled. “The rumours are true, they’re locking us down!” he said.
When I had arrived a couple of days earlier, Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, was eerily deserted. A few residents with basic face masks were casually finishing up their Spring Festival shopping as the country wound down for the Lunar New Year holiday this weekend. There had been dozens of confirmed cases by that point and a handful of deaths linked to the coronavirus.A token string of police tape flapped in the wind at the shuttered market where the virus was first discovered on December 31.
At the airport the flight cancellations were stacking up, and the rumours were mounting that a lockdown was imminent. But as I dashed for my plane, I still breezed through security with no additional screening. As I sat on the Shanghai metro after arriving home, tussles were breaking out over the last bag of rice or the final bottle of milk in Wuhan’s supermarkets.
People who have spread this overseas knowing they had it should be charged with attempted murder just like spreading aids
better cancel chinese new year event in city, why gathering ppl to most chinese populated place
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