Universities drop self-isolation of stranded Chinese students

Universities drop self-isolation of stranded Chinese students
Pattrick Smellie
Time is running out for New Zealand universities to get a special exemption to allow about 6,000 students currently stranded in China to start the first semester here.The outlook for the global spread of the coronavirus has deteriorated so rapidly since the beginning of the week that universities have already accepted students arriving in New Zealand would have to be isolated in what would otherwise be seen as a discriminatory way. "It's become apparent that the public concern about this is being stoked so much by what's happening around t...

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