General Chat

We have a case of a Canadian who lives in the next town to me ...........

The father took their 2 year old daughter (almost 3) to Wuhan to visit parents while mother stayed here. She was giving interviews on Tuesday that he was now in hospital with coronavirus, though she believed it was mild and he was recovering. Meanwhile the child was being looked after by "care givers" as she was being quarantined. The child apparently doesn't know the "care givers" as she had been taken away from the grandparents..

Mother was madly trying to find someone willing to add her daughter to their family, and then trying to find out if the daughter would even be allowed to leave .........the child is a Canadian citizen and has a Canadian passport, but the father is a Permanent Resident.

Canadians have been told by the Chinese that a PR will be allowed to leave the country IF they are the chief caregiver for a Canadian citizen, but it all depends on whether the father has completely recovered AND whether the child is showing any signs. Otherwise, the Chinese are not allowing Chinese citizens who are only Permanent Residents to leave the country.

Nobody could tell her anything. She is offering to go to Ontario and enter quarantine with the child if she can be brought here.

The Canadian plane finally left Wuhan earlier today with about 211 passengers onboard, but I've heard no more about this family.

I can totally relate to the man who is not coming home because of his dog,

Ido hope he survives because e has nobody to care for that dog if he dies and it would worry me beyond belief.

I think the couple with the 1 month old baby came out on the French plane.
They had to get permission for the Chinese wife to leave,it was given but came too late for them to reach the airport in time.
I gather the Consul arranged a Visa for her and sent a car to get them to the airport.

The one I saw the baby was only about 3 weeks old and hadn't been around long enough to get a passport.

She left with the baby(3yrs old) She comes from York

Oh good. Thank you.

I think that was the one.

The one I saw, the baby didn't have a passport, only a birth certificate but the Foreign Office stepped in and obtained an emergency passport for him. The family were on the next flight to UK.

Last week, there was a British woman on the News explaining that she felt unable to leave China because, whereas she had a British passport and was able to leave with impunity, her small son had a Chinese passport and was unable to do so.

Later, she appeared to be shown on a flight leaving China.

Does anybody know what happened? Surely she would not leave the little boy behind..