Coronavirus casts a shadow over Chinese New Year for another year as cases rise

Tanya Tong has two weeks to weigh up whether to see her parents for the Chinese New Year, as a small but persistent resurgence of the virus creates déjà vu one year on from the COVID-19 outbreak, scuttling celebrations across the country.

The 28-year-old office worker in Beijing is pondering the four-hour flight back to Urumqi — the capital of the Xinjiang region in China’s far west.

But the renewed outbreaks in northern China’s bitterly cold winter, which authorities are partly blaming on imported products, are…