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A British woman offered an evacuation flight out of Wuhan says she was told to leave her 3-year-old son behind

Air crew in Bangkok, Thailand, prepare to disinfect a plane, a measure to contain the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.Natalie Francis, a British woman living in Wuhan, says the UK government offered to evacuate her to the UK, but said she can't bring her three-year-old son., only British passport holders who do not hold Chinese citizenship are being offered a way out from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.

"So just received a lovely phone call from the foreign office in London all about being evacuated from Wuhan with my 3 YEAR OLD SON. I can go with no problem, my son however can't go as they say 'nothing can be done'," she wrote. The exact citizenship status of the child is not clear. China does not acknowledge dual citizenship, meaning that even if the boy held a UK and a Chinese passport, China would consider him only to be a Chinese citizen.that she, her husband, and their young son did not initially plan to evacuate Wuhan until they heard reports of young children catching the virus."All three of us are in Wuhan at the moment. Physically we are fine, but the stress of being locked up for so long...

The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for information on the Francis family's situation. on Wednesday, the foreign office said it was working to organize a flight to evacuate "eligible British nationals" from Wuhan.

 

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