Excluded from evacuation plans, South Africans in other parts of China are making their own arrangements to return home.
This comes after the inter-ministerial committee on Sunday announced that only citizens in Wuhan City, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, are being brought back to South Africa.
However, Sophy will not be among the over 100 citizens being brought home, because her location falls outside South Africa’s priority evacuation zone. “We cannot sleep, we are very worried as we watch social media and she is not in SA yet. We are also concerned about others.” However, for the Ramalepe’s, Thursday seems a bit too long until Sophy returns. Until then all they can do is watch, monitor and wait.
“It has been a very daunting almost two months. In the beginning, we could still go out but as the numbers went up the government decided to completely shut down everything and that meant being stuck in our apartments. It’s tough for us because we can’t even understand the language. In the past three to four weeks we’ve been pretty much eating the same .
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