Ken Burnett and his family went to Shanghai in November. When he returned to the U.S. to work, his wife and young children went to visit family in Wuhan -- soon after, the coronavirus outbreak hit, trapping them there. His fight to get his family home:
They planned to stay through Lunar New Year festivities on Jan. 25."She had not been there for the Lunar New Year in 10 years," Burnett says, so she was looking forward to it.
"It still didn't really hit us," Burnett says."We thought, it can't completely close down." Soon, they got information about ''special cases'' being let out. They began to call around ''to see how we could become one of these special cases." A State Department spokeswoman said the agency “has no higher priority than the welfare and safety of U.S. citizens abroad. The Department of State is working with the U.S. Government Interagency and PRC counterparts on staging additional flights for U.S. citizens to return to the United States from Wuhan. As space is available, seating will be offered to U.S. citizens on a reimbursable basis, to leave from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport to the United States.
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