WUHAN, Jan 25 — China marked its most important holiday under a cloud of fear and gloom today as the toll from a deadly respiratory virus jumped to 41, with almost 1,300 people now known to be infected. The Lunar New Year is normally China’s most festive time, but holiday observances across the...
Pharmacy workers wearing protective clothes and masks serve customers in Wuhan January 25, 2020. — AFP pic
Today, when they should be celebrating the New Year, people stood in line at pharmacies to buy masks from employees in full-body protective suits and surgical gloves. Chinese health authorities said today the nationwide toll had jumped to 41 after 15 more people had died the day before in Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei, where the virus emerged.
“Usually we celebrate as a family. Now, because of the virus I’m not even visiting my parents,” said Wang Fang, a 49-year-old Wuhan native and one of many city residents to express fear over how the contagion will play out.China’s aggressive response has won praise internationally, especially compared to SARS, in which it was accused of a slow-footed reaction and stonewalling the international community.
But the outbreak has spoiled a holiday that hundreds of millions of people eagerly look forward to each year as it is usually the only chance for a reunion of families whose members spread out across the country in search of work.
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