The Irish living in Wuhan lockdown: A man in a hazmat suit delivers dinner

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Life in a coronavirus lockdown: 'I’d love a Guinness and a bag of Tayto, that would be the business'

and confined to their homes indefinitely are “feeling the strain” after three weeks, as the coronavirus death toll and infection numbers spike dramatically.in an attempt to contain the contagion, many residents are now not allowed to leave their homes.“Mentally it is getting more difficult. There is no end in sight,” said Mike, an Irishman working in Wuhan who asked to be identified by his first name.

“At nighttime then a man in a hazmat suit will leave it outside and bang on the door. And when he is gone in the elevator I will go outside in my gloves and my mask and pick it up, and then I will bring it out to my balcony and leave it there for 48 hours,” he said.“If there was a virus on it they say it would be gone in 24 or 48 hours, So I’d leave it there and when 48 hours is up it’s like I’m going to an operating theatre.

China’s National Health Commission said the huge increases were because they had broadened their definition for cases to include people clinically diagnosed via lung imaging. Those trapped feel a sense of frustration with the lack of official information coming from the Chinese authorities, he said.officials in Hubei province and the provincial capital of Wuhan had been fired over their mishandling of the crisis, following unprecedented waves of public anger levelled at the government in recent days.

“I’ll give credit where credit is due. I cannot fault the embassy in Beijing. I know they have a horrible job now, everybody wants something, and I do hate asking them to do anything for me,” he said, “But anytime I ask them for anything, there is no problem.”

 

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