Foreign students tell of how they are living in 'total terror for fear of being infected'. FMTNews Wuhan Coronavirus Covid19
A doctor takes a swab from a woman to test for the Covid-19 virus in China’s Shandong province.
“We want to go back. We can’t survive any more,” said Gaurab Pokhrel, a Nepali doctoral student in Wuhan and one of 200 from his country yet to be evacuated. While many have managed to escape on government-chartered planes, a dwindling group of the unlucky – or in some cases hardy – remain, either adapting to life or still seeking a way out.Ruqia Shaikh, a Pakistani postdoctoral researcher stranded at Wuhan’s Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, said most students at the school were confined to their dormitories, watching TV.
“We are worried about how the authorities are going to treat us when we go back to Pakistan – some students who went back told us the officials treated them very badly,” she said. Al-Tawili said Yemen’s government had turned a deaf ear to requests to leave, and financial aid promised to scholarship holders had not been sent.
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