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China warns citizens not to go home for Lunar New Year amid new COVID-19 outbreaks
In recent years, Tong Gong would always go back to her hometown in China’s Henan province during the Lunar New Year holiday to reunite with her parents.
Key points:
- China has advised people not to travel during the week-long annual holiday
- Most people leave their cities of work to see their families back home
- China is currently fighting new COVID-19 outbreaks in the country’s north
This year however, the employee for the Chinese tech giant Tencent decided to stay in the southern city of Shenzhen, the so-called “Silicon Valley of China”, instead of making the trip up north to Luoyang city.
“The epidemic in northern China is pretty serious now, and I am worried that I may not be able to come back to Shenzhen on time afterwards,” Ms Gong told…
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