He said “As you can see the weather is very bad today. There is heavy rain and light snowfall since yesterday afternoon. There is no one in our building
From Uttar Pradesh, an Indian couple is stuck in China’s Wuhan city where coronavirus epidemic broke out over a month ago, has sought the central government’s help to arrange their return to the country. The current outbreak has claimed over 1,700 people in China, has spread to more than 25 nations across the world in the last few weeks.
An associate professor at the Wuhan Textile University Ashish Yadav and his wife Neha, a Ph.D. scholar, could not be evacuated earlier this month on Air India flights sent by the central government to Wuhan because of Neha’s surgery.
The couple has sent videos from their apartment, describing appeals for help. “Namaste, my name is Ashish Yadav and this is my wife Neha Yadav. I am an associate professor at the Wuhan Textile University. I appeal to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to evacuate us from here immediately,” says Ashish
His wife Neha said, “Our parents are very worried I would request that we should be evacuated immediately.”
On Sunday afternoon in the two-minute video shot by Ashish from the balcony of his apartment, the professor described how the couple is running out of supplies.
He said “As you can see the weather is very bad today. There is heavy rain and light snowfall since yesterday afternoon. There is no one in our building. Yesterday, I had just a few empty bottles of water and I had appealed for some water to be given and so today I have been sent some water and this food by the authorities here. We have rations only for a few days so I again appeal to the Indian government to evacuate us immediately,”.
In another video, Ashish explains how Wuhan has turned into a “ghost town”. “There is nothing here and this is a university area. Boys and girls used to live here… but there is no one here. Even in our apartment, there is no one.”
“You can see I have no food left and the packets are empty,” he said. “I only have one bottle of water left. Just look at our fridge, it has only got a few vegetables… that’s our last hope now,” Yadav said.
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