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Pedestrians Walk in, out of China's Virus Lockdown via Yangtze Bridge

Reuters

   JIUJIANG, CHINA --People are leaving and entering China's Hubei
   province on foot over a bridge spanning the Yangtze River despite a
   virtual lockdown on vehicle traffic because of a coronavirus epidemic
   that has killed about 200 people.

   The Yangtze marks the dividing line between Jiujiang in Jiangxi
   province and Huanggang in neighboring Hubei, one of the cities hit
   hardest by the coronavirus outbreak and now sealed off from the rest of
   China to try to contain the pathogen.

   But the foot traffic over the Yangtze shows the lockdown is permeable,
   raising doubts about its effectiveness and providing a glimpse of life
   inside the epicenter of what the World Health Organization (WHO) has
   called a global emergency.

   Wu Minzhou, a 40-year-old business owner who was fishing near the
   bridge on the Jiangxi side, said he was worried about the exceptions
   being made for people leaving Hubei.

   "Because there's an ... incubation period at play here, if they head
   out, for example, to cities in the north of China then it's highly
   possible they will infect those areas, too," he said.

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