Guards have blocked routes out of China's Wuhan as part of efforts to seal ...
BEIJING - Guards have blocked routes out of China’s Wuhan as part of efforts to seal the city and bottle up a new coronavirus as residents scrambled for supplies on Thursday, clearing out supermarket shelves and queuing up for petrol.
It has gone on to kill 17 people and infected nearly 600, most in China but cases have been detected as far away as the United States. The transport lock-down comes just before the Lunar New Year when hundreds of millions of people travel home or go on holidays abroad. “I find it acceptable to have to stay at home, but I’m most worried about whether I’ll be able to return to school,” Guo said by text message.
“I’m one of the lucky ones since my flight wasn’t actually canceled,” Sibusiso Sgwane, a Wuhan resident who boarded an Air China plane bound for the city of Shenzhen, said in a video message.Several Wuhan residents told Reuters people were rushing to stockpile supplies. Big supermarkets were teeming with people and many shelves for staples like meat, vegetables and instant noodles were bare, they said.
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