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Coronavirus, what happens to the evacuated?


Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:47:37 +0100

From Italy to the US to Australia, all over the world, countries that want to evacuate their compatriots from Wuhan have to deal with how to manage these people potentially already infected by the coronavirus. And different styles and treatments are emerging: from the soft hand of Japan that adopts the auto quarantine to the hard punch of Australia that intends to send them to an island 2 thousand kilometers from the motherland. The only countries that have so far managed to repatriate their compatriots from the epicenter of the epidemic are the United States, Japan and Singapore: the other states - including Italy - are awaiting the go-ahead for Beijing, reluctant to facilitate these evacuations considered as signs of distrust. .