Chinese citizens abroad seek refuge from the coronavirus pandemic -- at home

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-citizens-abroad-seek-refuge-from-the-coronavirus-epidemic--at-home/2020/03/17/836140f8-67f2-11ea-b199-3a9799c54512_story.html



As the coronavirus started spreading across the United States last week, New York University student Jane Zhang knew what she needed to do. She needed to seek shelter from the outbreak. At home. In China.

“China has already contained the situation, and there are no new domestic cases in Beijing,” the 19-year-old sophomore said, “but I think the number of people with the virus in the United States is going to rise exponentially.”

So on Friday, the day the number of cases in New York state rose 30 percent overnight, she boarded a flight home to the Chinese capital. It just feels safer, she said, because authorities there have made more of an effort to ensure public health.

“The Chinese government basically pays for a patient’s recovery, so we don’t have to worry about how much treatment is going to cost,” she said, making a contrast with the U.S. health-care system.

Plus, she said, Americans didn’t seem to be taking the outbreak seriously enough.

In a matter of weeks, China has gone from being the epicenter of the virus to almost the only refuge from it, prompting hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens abroad to flock home. About 20,000 people a day are arriving on flights into China, while five times as many arrive by land or sea, state media reported.

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So sick. So sad what Republicans and Russians have done to our beloved nation.