Coronavirus evacuees encounter road blocks, red tape on way out


  • World
  • Friday, 07 Feb 2020

PARIS (Reuters) - Christopher Lan toughed out road blocks and red tape in his scramble to get himself and his family on an evacuation flight out of the Coronavirus epicentre and home to Canada.

Lan, a biochemical engineering professor at Ottawa University, was visiting family in Hubei province with his wife and 30-year-old son when Chinese authorities put the region in lockdown in a scramble to halt the spread of the virus.

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