Fever alarms, paranoia as masked passengers fly from China

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Airline passengers making their way to and from China are navigating an eerie scene as officials around the globe work to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus.

One woman who flew 14 hours from Shanghai to New York changed her white face mask every four hours to make sure it was clean.

At Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Bangladesh, passengers arriving from Beijing on Wednesday walked through thermal scanners to check for fevers. As their disembodied faces appeared on a nearby screen, most of their heads looked green, indicating a normal body temperature, but the machine beeped loudly when one man’s forehead appeared red. He was shuttled to the side where a woman took his temperature with a device shaped like a bar code scanner.

A similar scene played out in Kathmandu, Nepal, where masked passengers were greeted with large, illustrated signs imploring them to visit the health desk if they have symptoms including high fever, muscle pain, headaches or hemorrhaging. Jarvan Lee, a 25-year-old student from New York, came to JFK to pick up family friends arriving from Beijing wearing a black mouth cover with two air filters. He bought it five days ago from Amazon for $30 and plans to wear it at the mall or anywhere else he’s around a lot of people. “I’m worried,” he said of the virus.

 

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All the people coming from China shoud be quarantined as I hear this disease does not show for a while?

This has not aged well.

I know it is not always possible and can be considered 'in-humane'... But with a circumstance like this... Why not make it international law and close all borders in efected areas...meaning...absolutely no travel

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