Posted on 04/07/2020 5:38:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thousands of Chinese travellers rushed to leave coronavirus-ravaged Wuhan early Wednesday as authorities lifted a more than two-month prohibition on outbound travel from the city where the global pandemic first emerged.
As the ban expired on schedule at midnight (1600 GMT Tuesday), passengers -- many in hazmat suits -- expressed joy and relief as they filed into Wuhan's Wuchang station to catch the first overnight trains out of town.
"Wuhan has lost a lot in this epidemic, and Wuhan people have paid a big price," said a 21-year-old man surnamed Yao, who was heading back to his restaurant job in Shanghai.
"Now that the lockdown has been lifted, I think we're all pretty happy."
Government estimates say as many as 55,000 people are expected to flow out Wednesday by train from the city, which was placed under an unprecedented quarantine lockdown on January 23.
State-run Xinhua news agency said columns of passenger cars also lined up to stream out of the city at midnight as road barricades on its outskirts were dismantled, and that flights also resumed early Wednesday at Wuhan's international airport.
Some travellers could barely contain their happiness.
"I've been stuck for 77 days! I've been stuck for 77 days!" shouted one man who arrived at the railway station for a train back to his home province of Hunan.
The lockdown made Wuhan the first place in the world subjected to draconian containment steps now seen in many countries.
The rest of surrounding Hubei province quickly followed, confining tens of millions of people at homes and cutting the province off from the world as transport in and out was halted.
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Watch out they may have another virus to infect us with
“...flights also resumed early Wednesday at Wuhan’s international airport. ...”
Oh cr@p....
Shut —all— the U.S. international borders !!!
Meanwhile, the number of deaths reported by China have doubled overnight.
The British estimated 10,000 were killed in the Tienanmen massacre.
There is not too much mention of it in the media today. Also, no Hollywood movies made dramatizing the murders, etc.
They all took HCQ at the advice of Fauci.
250,000 are already here as students.
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