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‘Please take my daughter’: Mother of woman with cancer pleads at Hubei blockade

JIUJIANG: Hours ticked by on Saturday (Feb 1) as 50-year-old Lu Yuejin struggled to get past the police checkpoint on the bridge over the Yangtze river and out of Hubei province, which is on virtual lockdown as China scrambles to control a coronavirus outbreak.

Lu, a farmer from a village on the Hubei province side of the bridge, was trying to gain passage for her daughter, 26-year-old Hu Ping, who has leukaemia.

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She has been unable to receive a second round of chemotherapy treatment in the overwhelmed hospitals of provincial capital Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak.

Read: Commentary: China in a Wuhan coronavirus lockdown – life is normal but not really

A leukaemia patient who arrived from Hubei province waits next to a sign that reads 'exclusion zone' for permission to cross a checkpoint in Jiujiang. (Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter)

"My daughter needs to go to hospital in Jiujiang," she said at the checkpoint. "She needs to have her treatment. But they won't let us through."

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Her daughter sat on the ground wrapped in a blanket while Lu tearfully pleaded with police.

"Please, take my daughter. I don't need to go past … please, just let my daughter go past," she told officers.

Her pleas were almost drowned out by a loudspeaker playing a pre-recorded message that residents would not be allowed into Jiujiang, the Jiangxi province city on the southern side of the Yangtze.

The bridge has been largely closed off in an attempt to halt the spread of the new disease, which has infected 14,380 people, the vast majority of them in China, and killed more than 300.

READ: Chinese city outside coronavirus epicentre in Wuhan shuts down

A leukaemia patient and her mother coming from Hubei province cross a checkpoint at the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus. (Photo: Reuters/Thomas Peter)

Dozens of people have attempted to cross the police checkpoint in recent days. Some had succeeded by holding the right train or plane ticket departing from Jiujiang and bought before January 24, but many had failed.

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