Chinese businesses in faraway Namibia feel virus fear

But like many countries on the continent, the southern African nation hosts a big Chinese retail business community with close links to home.A notice in Chinese and English taped to an aluminum shutter on Chinese-owned shop in Windhoek’s Chinatown spells it out: Any merchant returning to Namibia from China “must be quarantined for 14 days and keep the shop closed for that period”, state the typed instructions signed by the Chinatown management.

For those who travel nonetheless “we have already set up a quarantine place outside of Windhoek” where they will be kept until cleared of the virus, but nobody has been taken there yet. “Many of us here only go back in February or March for stock, now it is dangerous to go and come back,” he said. “If you go now, you don’t know if this country will let you come back.”

“Clients from Walvis Bay, Swakopmund and Oshakati are not coming for now because we only have old stock,” said the 52-year-old who has worked in Namibia for nine years.– Not worth it –“Her uncle and aunt told her the Chinese bosses will give her the virus that is killing all the Chinese and that a N$800 salary is not worth losing her life or infecting the rest of them in the house,” and so she quit, said Ndinoshisho.

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