TOKYO — Passengers who made it out of epidemic-hit Wuhan just before quarantine measures effectively sealed off the Chinese city of 11 million spoke Thursday of shuttered stores and empty streets. All the people are wearing masks,” said Minoru Okada, a Japanese auto industry businessman in his 50s, who was returning for the Lunar New Year holidays. “Buses and subways have all stopped services,” he added, voicing concerns for his compatriots now stranded in the city. “I’m supposed to return (to Wuhan) after the Lunar New Year but I don’t know how it will actually turn out,” he also said. He said everyone on the three-and-a-half-hour flight was, like himself, wearing masks to avoid becoming infected.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 23, 2020 09:11 UTC