HANGZHOU: Before boarding Scoot Flight TR188 in Singapore on Jan 24, the Lunar New Year’s Eve, tour guide Lao Guan knew the trip home would be anything but uneventful.
“Everyone in my group was showing signs of anxiety, ” said Guan. “It was as if we were string puppets at the mercy of fate.”
Upon landing, they had to undergo health screening at Hangzhou International Airport, before spending the first 14 days of the Lunar New Year under quarantine. “I was in total despair, ’” Li recalled. “In the ambulance, I even thought of preparing for the worst.” But others weren’t so lucky. Overall, seven passengers onboard Flight TR188 were found to have been infected with the virus.
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