A teacher who is living with his pregnant Canadian wife and child in a city that is the epicentre of China's coronavirus outbreak is hoping to get out of the country on a British flight.
Tom Williams is hoping to get his wife, Lauren, who is about 35 weeks pregnant out of Wuhan, a city that has been essentially locked down with the emergence of the disease. The couple also has a two-and-a-half-year-old son, James, who is Canadian."We're just currently waiting to hear confirmation whether we've got space on the British flight," Williams told The Canadian Press in a FaceTime interview from China on Wednesday.
The Williams family is among 126 Canadians who the federal government says have asked for help leaving Wuhan. Williams said looking at options isn't really helping people on the ground, although he understands that Canada doesn't have a diplomatic presence in Wuhan, a city of 11 million. Canadian offices in Beijing and Shanghai are closed until Sunday for the Lunar New Year holiday.
The family went out during the day Wednesday and the streets were "very quiet," he said. They take their temperatures whenever they enter and leave their apartment complex."He's a little bit clingy, but we're doing our best with train sets and different things. Trying to keep him entertained."
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