Noah and Ivy Cleveland were packed and ready to go for weeks before a Feb. 7 flight to Guangzhou, China, they hoped would change their lives.They had been excited about making the trip for nine months -- ever since their adoption agency told them they'd been matched with a little girl they could
Noah and Ivy Cleveland were packed and ready to go for weeks before a Feb. 7 flight to Guangzhou, China, they hoped would change their lives.
And for Ruby, they would take a special suitcase -- one covered with signatures from people who had helped them pay the costs of adopting her. "We finally got to the part in our adoption process that was super exciting," Ivy Cleveland said."And in a blink of an eye, all of that got taken away. And then you go from excitement, to devastation, to questioning everything."The Clevelands are one of about 20 families using Holt International who should have gone to China by now and returned with their new children.
According to the most recent numbers from the World Health Organization on March 4, there are 80,422 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China alone. There have also been 2,984 deaths. Story continuesMORE: Pompeo accuses China and Iran of censoring information about coronavirus outbreaks As of March 4, in South Korea, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases skyrocketed from 31 to 5,328 in just two weeks , according to WHO. The outbreak is not as bad in the other three countries.
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