Stranded by coronavirus blockade, Chinese man fights to get back to work

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A dedicated employee.

On Sunday, the 35-year-old completed a near-2,000 km 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.

"I think I've done everything I can do," he said. Before setting off on the near two-day drive, Tian got a health certificate showing he was virus-free and called ahead to the city officials, who assured Tian he would face no problems. He is not the only one stuck in such a rest stop limbo. Posts on China's social media platforms show several people trapped in unfamiliar places, under quarantine or abandoned in no man's land amid travel and entry restrictions that sprang up throughout the country.

"They 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.

 

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