British family’s fraught escape from Wuhan and coronavirus
Siddle family now in quarantine after last-minute permission to leave and four-hour dash across Hubei province
As they raced along deserted motorways, stopping only for the checkpoints manned by Chinese officials in hazmat suits, Jeff Siddle feared he would never make the flight out of coronavirus-hit Wuhan with his wife and young daughter.
But, down in no small part to the generosity of a Chinese private car driver who ferried them the four hours across the locked-down Hubei region, the British family made it in the nick of time.