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'I'm in an apocalypse:' American student trapped in coronavirus-hit Chinese city | Reuters
"I'm trapped in an apocalypse": American student in a coronavirus infected Chinese city.
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(Reuters) – For nearly a week Nicholas Schneider, a 21-year-old American college student, has tried and failed to find a route out of Wuhan in China, the city quarantined at the center of a rapidly spreading coronavirus epidemic.
A strange calm has settled over the streets of Wuhan, a city of 11,000,000 people. Schneider, a student of geodesy, a branch in applied mathematics, has been studying there for the past 10 miles (16km) and is located about 16km from the market where the experts believe that the coronavirus was first discovered.
It's almost like a ghost city, with hardly any cars or people. It's an odd feeling. Schneider told Reuters in a Wednesday phone interview that he felt like he was in apocalypse.
Chinese officials cut off most transport to Wuhan, China on January 23 to try to slow the spread of the virus. The virus has killed over 130 people and infected more than 6,000 people - a number that is higher than the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003.
Schneider, who has dual U.S. and German citizenship, considered rushing to a train that morning but his parents warned him against it.
He said, "They told me that the train station wasn't the best place to be with this virus." "So I decided I would stay...and that's when I became scared for the very first time, because I didn’t know what to expect.".
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