“I'm going. Honestly, I’m not very happy, although maybe leaving now is reasonable, since regular transport links between Russia and China are almost completely suspended for an indefinite period. In addition, studies at the university were also postponed, and when the new semester begins, no one knows, ”RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.
According to the Russians, they made the decision to return home with friends.
“If one of us stayed, then all would remain ... There are a couple of guys who, for personal reasons and beliefs, remain, but most leave,” she added.
The Russian student also shared her anxiety over the upcoming 14-day quarantine upon returning home.
“(This is me. - RT ) is frightening because they said that we won’t be able to go anywhere and they will not let anyone but doctors go to us. Here you can at least go for a walk around the campus, although it is also not very safe, but at least there is no feeling that we are being held locked up, ”the girl shared.
Earlier it became known that Russians from the regions of China most affected by the coronavirus will be evacuated on February 3-4 on five planes of the Russian Aerospace Forces with military virologists on board.
According to recent data, the number of coronavirus infections in China has increased to 14,380, 304 deaths have been recorded.
State Duma deputy, former chief medical officer of Russia Gennady Onishchenko, in an interview with Vzglyad, noted that the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized the outbreak of a new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV as an emergency situation on an international scale to warn all countries of the world about the danger of infection and the importation of infection.