BEIJING (Reuters) - Tian Bing has spent six straight nights curled up in the back of his white sedan, stranded at an expressway service station in eastern Jiangsu province in China because of a blockade aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. On Sunday, the 35-year-old completed a near-2,000 km (1,243 mile) drive from his hometown to Taixing, a city of about 1 million people in Jiangsu, to return to work. But policemen guarding the highway exit to the city, where he runs a home appliances repair business, told him turn back. Tian subsists on biscuits and instant noodles, with most restaurants at the service station shut down. "They (the officials) don't care if you die on highway because you have nowhere to stay," Tian said at the service station near another city about 90km from Taixing.

Source: The Star February 13, 2020 03:33 UTC