Anxious foreigners in the locked-down city that spawned China's deadly viral epidemic say they are stranded at home, running out of food and desperate to leave, as governments scrambled to draw up evacuation plans.
Authorities have barred travel to and from Hubei province and its capital Wuhan, where the coronavirus was first detected before it spread across
China and to a dozen other countries -- including the
United States,
France and Australia.
Several other large cities in China have introduced their own travel restrictions in a bid to contain the disease, which has killed 56 people and infected nearly 2,000 others.