They are based in the province of Hubei, not far from Wuhan, the hearth of the epidemic which devastates China since December. In a video published on Internet, these students placed in quarantine launched a cry of distress.

"We have been in quarantine for three weeks.All is blocked, all is closed, the banks, the public institutions ", they affirm.

Whereas the disease has just crossed the course of 361 dead, these Congolese blocked in their rooms since nearly three weeks cannot support anymore and ask an emergency intervention of the government.

"We are stressed so much because the governments of the other African countries took the decisions to help their compatriots but us, Congolese people, until now, there is no concrete solution".

In quarantine, these students say they have anything in stock to resist during a few days. "We did not have financial resources now, one does not know how one will survive in the next days"

Claiming to be gave up toto themselves, they request a financial assistance urgently to buy gloves, masks and disinfecting. For recall, in the area of Hubei, cradle of the contagion, 56 people died this Monday, the provincial authorities announced. What weighs down the death toll of the confirmed deaths which passed to 361 death.

In its daily press conference, the provincial Commission of health also gave a report on 2 103 new confirmed cases of infection in Hubei. These additional cases carry to nearly 17 300 the total number of the infections confirmed in the whole of China, according to official figures.

Wuhan and Hubei confined

Epicentre of the epidemic, Wuhan, metropolis of 11 million inhabitants in the center of China, and the near total of the surrounding province of Hubei, have been cut from world for Thursday by a Draconian medical cord.

Approximately 56 million inhabitants are concerned with this containment. At the interior of this zone, public transport is stopped, the stations closed as well as the cinemas, bars.

In Wuhan, the residents are invited to stay homes and the authorities banned the nonessential traffic.

Corneille Kinsala N’soki


(CKS/Yes)