Travellers leave cities for countryside amid warnings for most vulnerable and huge increase in official coronavirus death toll
Passengers arrive at Nanjing rail way station in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on Monday ahead of Lunar New Year amid the country’s China surge.Passengers arrive at Nanjing rail way station in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on Monday ahead of Lunar New Year amid the country’s China surge.
Ahead of the lunar new year holidays, also known as the spring festival, which officially starts on 21 January, state media has been filled with stories of rural hospitals and clinics bolstering their supplies of drugs and equipment. In China’s most populous city, Shanghai, temporary night trains have been added to meet demand for travellers heading to the eastern Anhui province, China’s official state news agency Xinhua reported.
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