A video shows a Family getting off at Shijiazhuang North Station with no way to get Home due to Shijiazhuang’s city closure, and sleeping on the streets in the freezing cold. (Screenshot of the video)
Three weeks have passed since a large number of foreign students and workers were stranded in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, unable to return home after the outbreak of the Epidemic. With the Chinese New Year approaching, they are even more eager to return home, but the journey is still far away.
Yang Yan (a pseudonym), a Handan woman, had just finished her graduate studies at the end of last year and had nothing to do. She went to Shijiazhuang on January 1 to work for a short Time with an acquaintance, but she didn’t expect to encounter the epidemic a few days later and it was already too late when she wanted to leave.
“I was going to go home the next day, that is, the 6th, the results of the 6th it suddenly closed, and did not (in advance) said.” “On the morning of the 6th, it was said that the transport was stopped, the road was also closed, it was the whole Shijiazhuang closed.”
Before the closure of the city, Yang Yan is in the acquaintance of the hotel, take-away store as a waiter, but fortunately she has acquaintances rely on, where the bridge west district and belong to the low-risk, she can still live in the store.
“I look at microblogging there are a lot of people asking for help, stranded people, people in hotels, and those in transit without a place to stay, I feel like I’m a lot better than them! So I’ve been following them.”
Yang Yan said she “sits and lies down every day and has nothing to do,” and what she wants most is to be able to go home for the New Year.
“Quite want to go home, every time and Parents video, they will ask ‘when can you go home ah?
“It’s not very far away, it’s very close, and then you have nothing to do, just don’t let you go back. A lot of them (stranded people) are on the verge of tears.”
Yang Yan said she had called the government, (the government) let talk to the district (government), the district will say to listen to the government’s opinion, anyway, can not go.
Yang Yan, she has done three nucleic acid tests, all negative, but the government across the board just won’t let stranded people go back. “They (the government) are kicking the can down the road, you don’t even know who you should go to, so it’s close to home, it’s just over 200 kilometers (but can’t go back).”
“I haven’t spent New Year outside!”
More than thirty people from Jiangxi were trapped in a factory in Zhengding
Wang Zhi (pseudonym), from Jiangxi, went to work in a factory in a village in Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang last year and is now sealed in the village and cannot go home.
“We are a low-risk area, and everyone is trying to go back for the New Year. But now even the village is not allowed out, are closed, the road is all stuck. Out can not get out.”
Wang Zhi said they are more than thirty people are trapped here, are Jiangxi people, the boss is also Jiangxi. “We are all relatives to bring relatives, family members to bring family members to such a factory.”
Wang Zhi said they stopped working from the 9th, all in the room, in the dormitory, Food are in the supermarket online shopping, and then they sent over. Every day is to eat and drink, sleep.
Because he wanted to go home, he also called many people, hoping to go home, but the government replied that “although Zhengding is a low-risk area, it is controlled according to the high-risk areas.”
Trapped on the day he brought his children to Shijiazhuang for medical treatment
The people who were stranded in Shijiazhuang were many and varied. A friend of Mr. Wu from Shijiazhuang came from Xingtai to Shijiazhuang for his child’s medical treatment and was stranded.
Mr. Wu told the Epoch Times that his friend came to Shijiazhuang on the day the city was closed, but once he arrived, the city was closed and he was not allowed to enter or leave.
His friend’s child was just born and was scheduled to have surgery in Shijiazhuang, but came to find out that he didn’t need surgery, but got trapped after going to the hospital.
“Then it was hard for me to book a hotel for him online and stayed in the hotel all the time, more than a hundred a day.” So far his friend with a newborn child can only stay inside the hotel.
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