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How the coronavirus shut down my home city in China

A Nikkei reporter tells her personal tale of family in the time of an epidemic

Workers visit a quarantined family in Qingdao, Shandong province, China, on Feb. 3. The city of nine million people has come to a standstill because of the coronavirus, despite being more than 1,000 kilometers from the epicenter of Wuhan.    © EPA/ Jiji
NIKKI SUN, Nikkei staff writer | China

HONG KONG -- My dad looked disappointed when I arrived back from Hong Kong to spend the Lunar New Year holidays with family in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao.

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