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By C.J. Atkins
SINGAPORE—It’s been more than two weeks since authorities in the city of Wuhan quarantined 11 million people in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak spreading across China and around the world. Except for a few foreign nationals whose governments have ferried them out on charter flights, the capital of epidemic-hit Hubei province remains, essentially, a closed city.
But that doesn’t mean life inside the quarantine zone has come to a complete halt or that people there have lost all hope. On the contrary, a healthy dose of solidarity and community spirit is helping them make it through the long, isolated days. As one Wuhan resident told People’s World, “This storm will pass.”
Lupin, a 26-year-old Chinese national, currently works in Toronto, but Wuhan is his hometown and it’s where his family still lives. This year was the first time he’s returned home to spend Chinese New Year with them since going overseas for school and then to work eight years ago. He landed at Wuhan’s airport at midnight on Jan. 23—the day the city was sealed.
“I arrived just a few hours before the city was quarantined,” he said in an interview with People’s World on Friday morning, Feb. 7. “There were only about 200 confirmed cases when I landed,” he remembers. As of this writing, there are some 31,000+ confirmed infections in China, with over 600 deaths. “I absolutely did not foresee...
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