The Latest: Ethiopian students in Wuhan demand evacuation
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the outbreak of a new virus from China (all times local):
Alarm is growing among the estimated thousands of African students stranded in the locked-down Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of an outbreak of a new coronavirus.
An association of Ethiopian students says in a statement released Friday that students are demanding “to be repatriated back to Ethiopia as quickly as possible.”
The estimated 300 Ethiopian students in Wuhan have submitted the request to embassy representatives, who are communicating with Chinese officials about a growing concern over food shortages.
The statement says that the stranded students are “shocked” by the outbreak but “luckily no Ethiopian has so far been affected.”
Students from Kenya, Cameroon and elsewhere have expressed similar worries as richer nations begin evacuating some of their citizens.
