BEIJING -- China expects 160 million people to travel between Tuesday and Feb. 18 as the Lunar New Year holiday season ends, giving the coronavirus outbreak more opportunities to spread just as the rate of new infections has begun to decline.
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Passengers on a Beijing subway: A total of 38 Chinese cities have reopened public transit systems that had been shut down to curb the spread of the coronavirus. © Reuters
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