G-d bless for President Trump. He is already on top of the situation. Roughly 1,000 American citizens are thought to be in Wuhan, and the U.S. consulate there is reaching out to the ones it knows about to offer them a seat on the plane, the person familiar with the matter said.
Meanwhile, the Democrats wail about climate change and ‘impeachment.’
ROADBLOCK to restrict people leaving Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province
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U.S. Plans to Evacuate Citizens From Epidemic-Stricken Chinese City
The U.S. government is said to be arranging a charter flight to evacuate Americans from Wuhan.
By James T. Areddy and Liza Lin, Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2020 8:15 am ET
SHANGHAI—The U.S. government is arranging a charter flight Sunday to evacuate its citizens and diplomats from the epidemic-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan to the U.S., a person familiar with the operation said.
The operation comes as the death toll from a newly identified coronavirus that originated in Wuhan climbs above 40 and the number of confirmed infections tops 1,200, with many of the cases in and around the central Chinese city of 11 million people.
The fast spread of the disease in recent days across China and around the world, including two cases in the U.S., has raised fears of a deadly contagion.
Roughly 1,000 American citizens are thought to be in Wuhan, and the U.S. consulate there is reaching out to the ones it knows about to offer them a seat on the plane, the person familiar with the matter said.
Controlling Coronavirus
Chinese officials have declared full or partial lockdowns in multiple cities, shutting down airports, train stations and highways. Wuhan, the center of the epidemic, is a transit hub with high-speed rail connections to some of China’s most populated cities.
The plane seats around 230 people, and will include diplomats from the U.S. consulate as well as Americans and their families. Those evacuated will be responsible for the cost, the person added.
The U.S. government won approval for the operation from China’s Foreign Ministry and other government agencies following negotiations in recent days, this person said.
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing and China’s Foreign Ministry couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Saturday, the first day of China’s Lunar New Year holiday.
The Boeing 767 jet will have U.S. medical personnel aboard to ensure that anyone affected by the newly identified and little-understood coronavirus is cared for and doesn’t spread it, this person said.
In addition to U.S. diplomatic officers based in Wuhan, any available seats may be offered to non-U.S. citizens, including diplomats of other nations, this person said, adding that the U.S. plans to temporarily shut its Wuhan consulate.
It couldn’t be learned where in the U.S. the plane would fly to.
Other governments are negotiating with Chinese authorities to arrange flights modeled on China’s agreement with the U.S., the person said.
U.S. evacuation operations of this nature have become relatively routine in some parts of the world after natural disasters and political disturbances, but the one planned Sunday appears to be unprecedented for China. The person said U.S. officials considered busing Americans from Wuhan to another city, such as Shanghai, if a flight couldn’t be arranged.
Chinese authorities in recent days have halted almost all transit, including commercial flights, in and out of Wuhan as they attempt to cut off the city and much of Hubei province from the rest of the country, in an extraordinary attempt to prevent the virus from spreading further.
That has left many foreign residents in Wuhan with few options for leaving the city, an important transit hub and manufacturing powerhouse sometimes compared to Chicago or Pittsburgh.
Wuhan is home to the business operations of a number of major U.S. corporations, including auto maker General Motors Co. It is also home to Chinese state-owned Dongfeng Motor Corp., which is joint venture partners with Japan’s Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co., as well as France’s Renault SA and PSA Group’s Peugeot. Many foreign employees from these companies as well as their suppliers are based in Wuhan.
The multinational Anheuser-Busch InBev SA brews beer in the city, and We Co.’s WeWork operates co-working spaces there.
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Drifter
4 years ago
Are they just being brought back or are they going to be quarantined?
Hope so. If demonicrats oversee the “resettlement” here, epidemic arrives in the good ole USA in two weeks.
Roger Grant
4 years ago
corona is now under investigation in 20 states in the US.
china has indicated that 90%+ of their provinces have reported cases.
corona has now been verified in 15 countries.
i really don’t get why they have lock downs. the horse is already out of the barn.
this has the look and feel of a real pandemic.
The problem with all this is determining if it is a problem. Just because someone gets flu symptoms or pneumonia symptoms doesn’t automatically mean an epidemic or pandemic. You don’t want to automatically cry wolf. It looks like China hid this for too long and now it is a major problem.
Chinese invent these diseases through misuse of the Petrie dish and eating bats and baby mice!
The so called scientists make lab Frankensteins through misuse of DNA both human and hybrid pig and monkey and God knows what else. These scientists are really mentally sick people.
They also eat cats, dogs, porcupines, camel meat, fox cubs, wild birds and just about anything else that is not human. If it was just confined to China, I would say it is Karma and have no sympathy for them whatsoever.
Poppey
4 years ago
With air travel providing the fluidity of mass population movement that it does, and bearing in mind there is no vaccine to counter corona at present, a case exists in shutting down all air traffic to infected countries because nobody has an answer to this.
Anyone could have it since symptoms don’t show up for a week or so. Imagine the damage a globe trotter can do, changing planes, layovers, eating at the airport for a delay, waiting for your flight, getting on another plane and finally getting to their destination. They may have gotten it from someone else and on and on it goes.
Some will cheat and take Advil to lower their termperature and get through any heath checking at the gate exiting the plane. Who wants to be quarantined ? They may think, I can do that at home. What a mess!
Ellie
4 years ago
I am quite certain that this plane will be equipped with medical equipment and medical personnel that will aid in evaluating each and every person onboard to see what their exposure has been and if they are in fact infected. If necessary, they will be quarantined on board. It is also my belief that they will, after all vitals, blood results (due to incubation periods), etc. have been gathered, the plane will land in a major US city — protocols of the highest order in place — and ALL onboard will be transported in a quarantined manner to a major teaching hospital to be quarantined, tested and treated until death or complete recovery. If there are foreign diplomats onboard of ally countries, the same should hold true with an understanding between the two governments (US/them) that after treatment (or death) they would be returned in good faith to their respective government. But make no mistake — these people will be quarantined until death or recovery in the strictest manner and will receive the utmost care. My husband is career DOD and this is how it’s been explained me. Hope this helps reduce any (very warranted) fears. God bless!
How kind of you to provide such good information. Thank you.
stephen5970
4 years ago
As I previously wrote, “Step one: shut down any and all travel to and from China. Two: don’t allow anyone in who was in China over the past three weeks (incubation is supposedly two weeks). Three: close down all international travel if this is declared a pandemic and keep it so until it is no longer a threat to humanity.”
NZ is letting direct flights from Wuhan into NZ, + NO checks on arrivals till today, where they are checked for a temperature, + given Pamphlets. If a temperature is found, they are told to go see a doctor. WTF…God help NZ
patd
4 years ago
Make sure they pay for their own ticket. I’m tired of my tax dollars being wasted on people who make bad choices.
GonadTheRuffian
4 years ago
On the plus side of the decision to bring these people back; maybe they will bring back some actual, factual information on what is REALLY going on over there.
The planes will be full. Every person will need to be quarantined likely on a military base – or maybe in a field hospital in Africa. Binging them into a major city in the USA would be idiotic.
bls12
4 years ago
Wouldnt it make more sense to leave them there, instead of risking them bringing in more virus to the US?
Jamfer Jones
4 years ago
Let’s bring them back and put them in laboratories and stick needles in them. Maybe we can do some secret experiments on them like in the Nazi camps? Nah, just let them go in the USA population so millions will die.
danE DanE
4 years ago
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
to be saved as a Christian, means your soul will go to Heaven when you die….not that you are protected from germs + viruses.
Dogandcat
4 years ago
Another reason for businesses NOT to be in China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Flynn
4 years ago
The evacuated citizens should be quarantined for approx two weeks so this germ is not brought over to the USA by them. For the evacuees’ good and the rest of our citizens’ good……
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