A Calgary family stuck in Wuhan is worried not only for their health, but the about the possibility of being separated in an effort to get the children out of the city in lockdown because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Bin Zhang and his wife are permanent residents, but their children are Canadian citizens, born in Calgary. The 33 year-old moved to Alberta in 2005 as an international student to study at SAIT.

Zhang said he and his wife submitted their Canadian citizenship applications in October but they travelled to China on their Chinese passports.

“I have been calling Global Affairs Canada pretty much every day trying to update them with our status,” he said.

“It’s unique for our family. We are somewhat concerned about whether they will be able to take my wife and I on the plane. Because we’re definitely not going to let our two children to board the plane by themselves. My hope is that they will also allow my wife and I to board the plane with my children.”

Zhang is in China with his wife, three-year-old daughter and seven-month-old son. They have been in Wuhan — where the new coronavirus outbreak started — since Dec. 13 when they left Calgary to visit his parents.

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