WATCH | 'People are dying like flies' - South Africans escape coronavirus lockdown in China

It may look like science fiction, but South Africans are quickly getting used to the spectacle of passengers passing through doors at airports wearing masks, as the deadly novel coronavirus holds the world in its clutches.

Many said it was a “relief” to be home after being in China - parts of which are under lockdown - and that the seriousness of the outbreak pervades every conversation on Chinese soil.Passengers arrive from Hong Kong at Cape Town International Airport, on January 29 2019, after being screened by health officials following the outbreak of the coronavirus in China.

She said Shanghai’s lockdown wasn’t as extensive as at other places but, even so, they felt as if they were being monitored wherever they went.

That virus is scared to come here

Seriously though ... there was a quarantine zone, right? They didn't walk through capetown airport...and go home... did they?

Temperature scans are not an effective method of detecting the virus, the Chinese health minister has said the virus is contagious during the incubation period ( anywhere between 1-14) before symptoms show. We need to stop flights from China & quarantine all Chinese

So we not safe now,they should have stayed there.

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