Wynberg family living in Wuhan hoping SA government will assist with evacuation | Cape Times

Cape Town – Winslow Forbes has been teaching in Wuhan since last year and lives there with his wife and two children.

He said after reports emerged of a mysterious virus, they were slightly cautious and didn’t allow their son to go back to school after the Christmas holiday. “There’s an eerie calmness in our area. This is a bustling city of 11 million people and it’s turned into a ghost town overnight. "We live in a high-rise complex and we don’t see or hear our neighbours. Shops in our community are shut. People are afraid,” he said.

It would certainly be foolhardy for the SA government to evacuate the few South Africans in Wuhan-the Chinese authorities are best placed to look after them rather than them coming back and risk introducing the virus to an ill prepared government!

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