NSTworld: Streets are notably quieter, facemasks are a commonplace and even a LunarNewYear dragon dance failed to bring in the usual crowds. coronavirus Chinatown COVID19
“Scaremongering is rampant” complains Max Huang, owner of the Juicy Bao restaurant in Melbourne’s historic Chinese district. “Customers won’t come in if they can avoid it.”
Streets are notably quieter, facemasks are a commonplace and even a Lunar New Year dragon dance failed to bring in the usual crowds. This file photo taken on February 13, shows visitors walking under Lunar New Year decorations in London's Chinatown district. -AFP “Our main customers are from China... it’s very difficult,” said Su Yin, whose pancake store sits downstairs from a Melbourne college with a large Chinese student base.
But “for the past two weeks, there’s been a lot less people, at least 50 per cent less, even though nobody is sick or has even been to China,” he said, adding business is as bad as it has been since he began working there in 1975.
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