One Wuhan family’s tale of coronavirus quarantine, followed by infection … and tragedy
by Lily Kuo from Science | The Guardian on (#4ZDF4)
Liu Mengdi could only look on as her relatives were ravaged by the virus. Now she has been warned to stop posting about their trauma
Liu Mengdi, 25, has been keeping a diary of the past few weeks as the coronavirus has ravaged her home town of Wuhan.
"Today is the sixth day of the Wuhan lockdown [the city has been under quarantine for the last three weeks]. I thought my family, prevented from going out, would at least be safe," she wrote on 29 January from Italy, where she is in her last year of university. "It never occurred to me they would not be able to escape this."
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