Myanmar Returns to China a Wuhan Woman Who Crossed Border

Sub-title: 

As Death Toll From Virus Grows, More Chinese Voice Anger, Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses That of SARS Epidemic, Q&A: How the Coronavirus Differs From the Flu and SARS

Description: 

"Myanmar police have apprehended and returned to Chinese authorities one of five people from the city of Wuhan, center of the deadly, fast-spreading coronavirus, who slipped across the porous border between the two nations earlier this week. The only woman in the group tested negative for the virus and was repatriated on Thursday. No information is available regarding what happened to her upon arriving in China. Her compatriots remain at large, according to police in Myanmar. Her return came a day after police in the border town of Ruili in Yunnan Province notified the chief of police in Myanmar’s Muse District to be on the lookout for four men and a woman “more than likely [carrying] the new coronavirus pneumonia,” according to a letter dated February 5, and obtained by VOA Burmese. On Friday, a Muse police officer, who did not want to be named, told VOA, “We are still in pursuit of four missing Chinese. … Yesterday, we looked for those five missing Chinese soon after we received notification and found one woman in Muse. After health workers from both our side and Chinese side checked, she was found to be in good health..."

Creator/author: 

Su Su

Source/publisher: 

"VOA" (Washington, D.C)

Date of Publication: 

2020-02-08

Date of entry: 

2020-02-09

Grouping: 

  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar, China

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

text

Text quality: 

    • Good