JIUJIANG, China - Hours ticked by on Saturday as 50-year-old Lu Yuejin struggled to get past the police checkpoint on the bridge over the Yangtze river and out of Hubei province, which is on virtual lockdown as China scrambles to control a coronavirus outbreak.
Lu, a farmer from a village on the Hubei province side of the bridge, was trying to gain passage for her daughter, 26-year-old Hu Ping, who has leukemia. She has been unable to receive a second round of chemotherapy treatment in the overwhelmed hospitals of provincial capital Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus outbreak.
Her pleas were almost drowned out by a loudspeaker playing a pre-recorded message that residents would not be allowed into Jiujiang, the Jiangxi province city on the southern side of the Yangtze. Dozens of people have attempted to cross the police checkpoint in recent days. Some had succeeded by holding the right train or plane ticket departing from Jiujiang and bought before January 24, but many had failed.
So sad
China
Sad... 😫
“About an hour after she spoke to Reuters at the checkpoint, police began to move. Phone calls were made, an ambulance was called and Lu and Hu were both eventually allowed through.” 😢🙏💗mother’s love coronavirus
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and someones first reaction is to take a pic of the crying mother instead of helping her?!
Eventually allowed out.
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Heartbreaking. Much love to Mom and Daughter 💕
These replies?!? I guess the crackheads got minutes for their phones.😳🤦♂️🤯
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This is just brutal .....
Don’t do it she’s infected too
Thanks be to Jesus there are still compassionate people in this world. And besides reporting the truth thank you for your humanitarian assistance. It gives me hope.
The girl is lucky. Hope more patients like her can receive proper treatment and weather the storm.
WHO Help these people.
👍 Humanity and kindness is, what separates us from the beasts.
After reading all the articles, she seems to have successfully passed the require check and went to the hospital. I hope her daughter will be saved.
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If you have time to take photos, why didn't ask help from hospital?The city is under blockage but the hospital not. I always wonder how you get this kind of information but this is always rarely
Chinese government executing Wuhan civilian annihilation plan? ((((；ﾟДﾟ))))fear, fear
中国政府のとっている コロナウイルス対策 は、やっぱり武漢(Wuhan)全土の淘汰計画なのだろうか・・。 無差別感が、映画でよく見る集落ごと殲滅する様相に見えるのだが・・
Good job, hope China could think about those those marginal people as quick as they can, not always depends on some foreign reporters
hrw “Eradicating Ideological Viruses” China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims. What China’s been doing to the Uyghurs (Muslims) in China, they are doing it now to themselves. Corona virus is responding!
Oh, that's so odd, when I first saw this, I assumed it was the southern border of the US. Then I was shocked they let her through. Then I reread it. Our humanity is strained.
Great job 👏🙏😇
I hope they start passing around some propers masks. This poor family. :(
Thank goodness for a happy ending. Kudos to this Mother who never stopped fighting for her daughter 🙏
Heartbreaking and seems unreal. Like science fiction, but true. 😨
Absolutely heartbreaking!
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Sigh ... 😞
Happy she made it though. Tough times for those poor people.
Very sad 😔, and heart breaking situation, all the world must be with China facing this situation 😥
Very sad indeed.
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