Chloe Chang, a Taiwanese resident trapped in Hubei, wakes up every 30 minutes. Sometimes she burst into tears in the middle of the night.

Chang, a 26-year-old Taiwanese industrial designer with her husband and young son, is now trapped in her grandmother's apartment building where a man died of corona virus infection in Yichang City, Hu. North, the center of Covid-19 epidemic in mainland China.

Health workers in full protective clothing walked the streets, and police appeared more in Chang's place. Yichang City, with more than 4 million people, is facing food shortages and necessities when it has been closed for weeks.

"Nobody can go out at the moment. My son has to eat 9 packs of instant noodles in the last 3 days," Chang said of his two-year-old son, adding that she is afraid that going to the grocery store could do it. increased risk of nCoV infection.

The Hubei provincial government on February 16 requires all residents to remain indoors until further notice. Each household is allowed only one person to go out to buy necessities every three days.

Chang's family thought they could leave Yichang earlier this month, but the bus that took them to the airport was suddenly canceled. All she could do now was wait and hope.

"The Taiwanese government will definitely come and take us home," Calvin Fan, Chang's husband, assured her. But the flight that they have been waiting for so far has not appeared. "Neither side wants to help us. We give up hope. We are like refugees now," Chang said.

Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese authorities blamed each other for Chang and hundreds of other Taiwanese residents unable to leave Hubei, the province recorded hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands of people infected with the corona virus.

People like Chang in Hubei hope to return home on a government-sent flight. But after the first flight that took residents from Hubei to Taiwan with infected passengers, the islanders reacted harshly.

Some argue that Taiwan cannot handle an outbreak of Covid-19 if more people are infected with the virus. Others say the island authorities should not welcome the mainlanders or wives of Taiwanese residents to return.

Chang and her husband went to the mainland to celebrate the Chinese New Year with their families late last month and have been stuck in Hubei ever since. Chang said the mainland government said she would be brought back to Taiwan on the second flight, scheduled for February 5. That day, her whole family took a bus to Wuhan Airport.

But just as the bus was about to depart, a Chinese official boarded the bus and announced that the flight was canceled. "I was completely depressed," Chang said.

On the Taiwanese side, they said information about the second flight that took island residents from Hubei referred to in mainland media was incorrect, since the two sides had never discussed the issue.

While the Chang family waited, the Chinese mainland government and Taiwan continued to criticize each other. "The Taiwanese keeps delaying the flight schedule," Xinhua news agency wrote last week. "Let Taiwanese people go home as soon as possible, and stop making arguments to prevent them from returning."

Meanwhile, Chen Shih-chung, head of Taiwan's health and welfare agency, said on February 14 that "mainland China still uses every excuse to delay the evacuation, to reject the plan." and our suggestions ".

Taiwan has recently increased its preventive measures against nCoV. The island government declares that mainland Chinese children with Taiwanese parents will not be able to enter the island during this time if they are from mainland, Hong Kong or Macau.

While the two sides continued to debate the information and the Taiwanese authorities tightened their entry regulations in fear of the Covid-19 epidemic, Chang and her compatriots could only wait and wait in Hubei.