Though the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had been reporting zero infection cases in Hubei and, on March 25, removed the lockdown in Hubei Province for all cities except Wuhan, other cities in China are still suspicious of Hubei people and do not want to take them in.
Voice of America (VOA) reported that, at a bridge between Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, police from both sides engaged in a fight since Jiangxi wanted to block Hubei people from coming in. On March 27, police from Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province went to the bridge to set up roadblocks to prevent automobiles from Hubei from crossing the bridge. Hubei police objected. Both sides engaged in a fight which they then further reinforcement. It escalated when Jiangxi’s special police and hundreds of Hubei people joined in. Police cars were even flipped upside down.
QQ reported that many provinces and cities required that, for Hubei people to go in, in addition to a health certificate, they must also provide the local community’s acceptance certification (to accept the Hubei people to live in the local area). However, it is hard for Hubei people to obtain such a certificate.
Media also reported that buses carrying Hubei people from cities of low coronavirus risk were told, when they arrived at their destination city at other provinces, to go back home. Some people were forced to sleep in the bus. Some were even told to use plastic bags when they needed to go to bathroom, so that “they would not get off the bus to spread the virus.”
Beijing has announced that it does not want any people from Hubei (whether they traveled there or lived there) to come to Beijing. Bao Liqun, Deputy General Manager of China Railway’s Wuhan Bureau Group, said that there were nearly 200,000 people stuck in Hubei who needed to go to Beijing.
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1. Excerpt in Chinese:
日前，当局宣称除武汉地区以外的湖北人员可凭健康证明离鄂。尽管官方连续数天公布的湖北省疫情数据均为零新增确诊病例，一些地方设卡防堵瘟疫重灾区人员入境的情况依然存在。江西省九江市交警在鄂赣两省交界处设卡阻拦湖北车辆入境，27日上午与湖北省黄梅县警察首先发生冲突。
网上消息和视频显示，两地警察发生冲突后，江西方面派出特警增援。随后大批湖北民众加入对峙，出现骚乱。数以百计的黄梅人走到横跨湖北江西两省的九江长江大桥，手持多面大字横幅，与大批江西警察激烈对峙，发生撞击。包括特警车在内的多辆警车被抗议者掀翻。有人背后戴手铐被便衣人员拖走。
中共黄梅县委书记马艳舟到桥上劝说抗议者离开，称黄梅县领导和黄冈市领导都在九江处理问题。他说打人一事将依法处理，稍后还将发布通告。
不过，大批湖北人冲破封锁，抵达九江大桥派出所，要求九江警方道歉。
武汉市和湖北省因疫情爆发封城封省期间，官方宣传在多种场合喊出“武汉加油！湖北加油！”等口号，但现实中湖北籍人员遭歧视性对待的事件在一些地方多有发生，并在新闻媒体或社交平台曝光，以至于网络上不时有人投诉挂鄂字车牌的车辆及湖北籍人员在外地陷入不被放行、不被接纳的窘境。目前湖北除武汉外已经解封，确诊病例多日保持清零，但湖北人员暂时仍不能自由进入北京。
Source: VOA, March 27, 2020
https://www.voachinese.com/a/police-forces-clashes-touch-off-riots-at-hubei-jiangxi-border-over-traffic-block-despite-official-announcement-of-zero-covid-19-cases/5348383.html
2. Excerpt in Chinese:
从3月25日零时起，武汉市以外地区解除离鄂通道管控。而在此之前，湖北省除武汉市外各城市已陆续采取“点对点、一站式”服务为返岗务工人员开辟绿色通道，各省市也相继采取措施助力湖北籍人员返岗。
可冉施还是和近一个月新闻报道中被劝返、阻拦、举报的湖北人一样，被小区工作人员强硬地拦在门外。“一听我是湖北籍，态度就变了，对我恶语相向。”
出于职业习惯，他本能地拿起手机录像。没想到对方立刻动手强抢，争着夺回手机的过程中，他看见围观的人对自己指指点点，言语间反复强调一句话——他是湖北回来的。
冉施是做好了进不去小区的准备的。
他告诉中国新闻周刊，湖北人想返岗，除需提供各项健康证明外，还要有务工地所住社区的接收证明。他曾为此在3月初联系上海所住社区的居委会，当时对方便态度强硬，无论他说情还是投诉，都坚决不开证明。
最初他以为自己是个例。上网搜索才发现，同样遭遇的各城市返岗人员大有人在。“社区根本不会给你开接收证明，政策出了湖北省就行不通了。”
多家媒体报道显示，湖北省大冶市、仙桃市等中低风险市区的“点对点”大巴车在到达目的地时被劝返，有乘客被迫在大巴车上过夜，还有乘客被勒令只能在车上用塑料袋上厕所，“怕下车传染病毒”。
中国铁路武汉局集团有限公司副总经理鲍立群表示，滞留湖北有进京需求的有近20万人。
Source: QQ, March 26, 2020
https://new.qq.com/omn/20200326/20200326A0PXMF00.html