All is well, said international students in Jiangsu
(english.jsjyt.edu.cn) Updated：2020-02-17
Fares Alahmadi shares the latest information about the novel coronavirus in his WeChat moments. He wrote a story for the Arabic edition of People's Daily about China's fight against the novel coronavirus. [Photo/jschina.com.cn]
Fares Alahmadi, a doctoral student from Nanjing Forestry University, wrote a story for the Arabic edition of People's Daily discussing China's fight against the novel coronavirus and comparing it with the H1N1 outbreak in the Unites States in 2009.
"Many Arabians now live, work, or study in China and there are also many who do business with China. They all have showed concern over the outbreak, but there is little news about it in the Arabic-speaking world," Alahmadi said.
He decided to share everything he knew with his Arabic-speaking friends and family and called on his compatriots to support the Chinese government's efforts. "I've been living in Nanjing for a while and I have many sources of information and abundant personal experiences," Alahmadi said.
Another student from the Central African Republic, who is a third-year student at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has also decided to relay information to his home country.
"I have been communicating with my parents and friends in my hometown. The news reported by foreign media is not true at all! We must respect the facts, tell the truth, and work with the Chinese government to defeat the virus," the student said.
Dean Getrude Mawen, a student at Nantong University, has been volunteering as an entrance guard since the beginning of the outbreak. She is from Libya and recognizes the importance of taking epidemic prevention and control measures, as she lived through the Ebola outbreak. She said nationality doesn't matter when fighting an epidemic.
Alina Paviel and Yuliia Komlyk, students at Soochow University, have been translating information related to mask certificates, in order to help people avoid buying fake or low-quality masks.
Their schoolmate Nikolai Mikhailov, a student from Russia, appeared on a TV show aired on China Central Television, as did more than 300 international students from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, who said they were moved by the help and caring they had received from their teachers and wished to send a video message to the people of Wuhan.
"Cheer up China, we believe in you," the students said in the video.
