Foreigners at the center of Wuhan pneumonia said they had to be buried at home, gradually running out of food and looking forward to returning home.

The Chinese government has banned all movement to and from Hubei Province as well as Wuhan City, the provincial capital, where the first case of the new Corona virus (nCoV) pneumonia was discovered, before it spread throughout China and many other countries.

Several major Chinese cities have also issued travel restrictions to contain the disease. Pandemic pneumonia has so far killed 80 people and nearly 2,000 infected.

"Last week, I couldn't go out and buy anything to eat," said Mashal Jamalzai, a political science student from Afghanistan who studies at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan.

Jamalzai and his classmates living on biscuits and the Afghan Embassy in China have not responded to his requests for help. "We want to be evacuated as soon as possible because if it's not the virus, then hunger and fear will kill us," Jamalzai said.

Thousands of foreign and foreign students live in Wuhan, a bustling trading center in central China, where the steel and automobile industry develops. But in the context of Wuhan being in a state of "inexperienced, foreign," schools and state agencies are closed, Siti Mawaddah student from Hubei University describes the city now "no" Just like a ghost town ".

"The situation in Wuhan is very stressful and worrisome now," Mawaddah, 25, from Indonesia, said, adding that the epidemic had a lot to do with her and her classmates' psychology. "If we stay in Wuhan, it's as if we're waiting for our turn to be infected," she said.

Mawaddah has heard about Washington planning to evacuate consulate staff and a number of US citizens living in the city. She hopes the Indonesian government will make the same move.

The State Department is sending a plane to Wuhan to pick up consular staff to take them to San Francisco, but warns the flight is not enough space for about 1,000 US citizens living in the city.

Diana Adama, an American teacher living in Wuhan, said she was disappointed by the lack of information related to the disease but insisted she would not leave the city on a government flight if it made her carry the virus. go home. "I will not endanger anyone," she stressed.

France is also planning to evacuate citizens stuck in Hubei by bus. French carmaker PSA announced it was building a plan to evacuate company employees and their relatives to quarantine in a neighboring province.

Sri Lanka meanwhile plans to bring 150 students from China back in the next two days.

In the context that China is increasing travel restrictions across the country, including Beijing and Shang Hai, foreign countries have urged citizens to stay away from Wuhan.