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Coronavirus: the Chinese of Paris on the alert

2020-01-24T08:13:08.639Z


The Chinese community in the capital is concerned about the risk of the spread of the new coronavirus that strikes the Middle Kingdom.


"11 million people confined, it's completely crazy, I have never seen that." Olivier Wang, can't believe it. This elected official from the 19th district from Wenzhou (east coast of China) did not expect the Chinese state to take such a radical decision in an attempt to stem the coronavirus epidemic: did it, it is obviously to show the population its will not to leave the situation out of control ", notes this city official in the Belleville district. Like in the past?

The specter of Sras

Within the Chinese community in Paris, memories of the SARS epidemic (acute respiratory syndrome) in 2002 and its chaotic management by the Chinese authorities remain vivid. And among all those who have left behind, relatives, friends, the concern is there.

"The SARS epidemic traumatized my parents, they were really very afraid," slides Huan behind his counter, while wrapping spring rolls and sautéed noodles for the customers of his restaurant. Her father and mother stayed in the country. They live in a small town south of Wenzhou. “Over there, it's almost the countryside and everything is calm, but I just had my father on the phone, he told me that he bought a mask. He assures me that it is a simple precaution because, there is no case of sick person declared where he lives, but between what the television affirms and what is really going on… ”, sighs the young woman.

Lots of Chinese people on New Years vacation

Su Ya is also on the alert: "We can cut off the whole Wuhan region, it is not at all sure that it will stop the virus, observes, skeptical, this thirty-something who runs a shop on rue Sedaine, in the 11th district of Paris. It's been a week that all of China is on vacation, in anticipation of the New Year and the transition tomorrow, from the year of the pig to that of the rat. Many workers and employees who worked in Wuhan have already had time to return to their families, in short, if they were carrying the virus, it is probably already too late! She objected.

While only one case has just been reported in the Wenzhou region, "Wednesday, I learned that four patients had already been identified there," says Olivier Wang, whose parents who live in France no longer know what Saints vow to themselves: "They intended to go to Wenzhou in May, but there, they wonder if they are not going to cancel everything".

Source: leparis

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