Chinese students flock home as coronavirus shuts Western campuses

Travellers line up at the Air China check-in counters at Beijing Capital International Airport.

“I can’t predict the future, but it has seemed relatively more under control in China,” the Shenzhen native told Reuters. As Chinese cities extend quarantines to travellers from an increasing number of countries and flights are cut back, students are rushing to get home.Vivian Yuan started a WeChat social media group offering travel advice to returnees after helping a friend studying in London try to find a flight to Hong Kong, with the price suddenly rising from 7,000 yuan to 70,000 yuan.

“It’s become really difficult just to buy a ticket. You can’t find direct flights and there’s lot of uncertainty,” Yuan said.Arrivals at China’s air and land ports were down 80% year-on-year for the week beginning on March 11, officials said. Wang Zihang, a student in his final year of high school in France, was among those coming home. He said he would rather face quarantine in China than stay in Europe.“It’s not about their health care system or economy – it’s just the country is too small to cope with so many people getting sick at the same time.”Engineering and management graduate Jack Jiang said he had just got authorisation to work in the United States when the virus started to spread quickly there.

But she can’t help wondering she that might have had more freedom if she returned home to Beijing and endured quarantine.

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