NSTworld: “I don’t want to go to the local hospital with a sore throat only to catch something else,”
Some foreigners also fear being trapped indefinitely as airlines cancel flights and countries quarantine or limit entry for people who have recently set foot in the country, according to interviews with eight people who are or were based in four Chinese cities.
The virus, declared a global emergency by the World Health Organisation on Thursday, has killed 259 people and spread to some two dozen countries, although the vast majority of those known to be infected are in China.“Wouldn’t go if we didn’t have kid,” Russian expat Maria Arkhangelskaya, who has a 20-month-old daughter and left Shanghai for Thailand on Thursday, said via WeChat.
Private clinic Raffles in Beijing will take the temperature of patients on entry and suspected virus cases will be referred to public fever clinics, a person answering the appointments hotline said. Visiting a public hospital in China can mean first waiting in line to get a ticket to see a doctor, only to wait in an another hours-long queue before being seen, and language is a barrier for non-Chinese speakers. Harrowing scenes of panicked crowds in Wuhan hospitals have circulated on social media.
Over 900,000 foreigners were living in China last year, according to a Jan 2019 report in the official China Daily.Many areas of China have extended the Lunar New Year holiday through Feb 9, and companies have curtailed business travel.
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