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SCMP: 17 døde af Coronavirus, Wuhan lukket af for ind -og udtransport

Morten W. Langer

torsdag 23. januar 2020 kl. 8:07

Fra SCMP:

  • All public transport closed down in city of Wuhan, in central China, to try to limit spread of infection as number of confirmed cases nears 600
  • Wuhan is described as a ghost town, with malls and restaurants empty
All public transport in and out of the Chinese city of Wuhan, including trains, buses and ferries, stopped at 10am on Thursday as the central government imposed a quarantine to try to contain the spread of a coronavirus     that has killed 17 people and infected hundreds more.

Local residents had rushed to railway stations and the airport after the announcement of the lockdown on Wednesday night. The government told residents not to leave the city without “special reasons”.

It came as the number of people confirmed to be infected on the mainland reached 571, with 17 deaths, as of midnight on Wednesday, according to China’s National Health Commission. The southern Guangdong province, bordering Hong Kong, had reported six new infections, taking its confirmed total to 32, according to People’s Daily.

Rail alert

Wuhan railway station was packed with passengers at 7am on Thursday, but not all of them wanted to escape from the city.

Zhang, a 61-year-old man from Wuhan, was making a business trip to Tianjin and planned to return on Friday. He said he was afraid of the possibility of spreading the virus, and thought the authorities should have taken preventive measures earlier.

“The Wuhan government said they started using temperature screening equipment last week, but when I went through the entrance, I didn’t see any of those,” he said. “No one checked my temperature.”

On a high-speed train from Wuhan to Dalian, in northeast China, almost all passengers leaving Wuhan were wearing surgical masks. But many passengers boarding the train two hours later in Xuchang, old and young, were not. One, a man in his 60s, said he had never heard of the coronavirus or any advice to wear a mask.

Other cities had stepped up precautions. In Handan, a city 790km (491 miles) from Wuhan with a population of 9 million, medical personnel were taking passengers’ temperature at the station exit.

Later on Thursday, Wang Wei, a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, had to abandon his plan to spend Lunar New Year in his hometown of Suizhou, 150km away.

“I can’t leave even if I want to,” Wang said. “I have bought lots of groceries yesterday, enough for several days, to remove the necessity to go out.”

Road checks

Medical personnel were stationed at toll gates and checkpoints on major highways to perform checks on people leaving the city.

A resident surnamed Ding who was driving out of Wuhan said the outward lanes were jammed, with very few vehicles heading into the city.

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