One of the biggest annual migrations is underway in East Asia as more than one billion people are expected to travel domestically and abroad ahead of this weekend’s Lunar New Year.
There are concerns about how this massive movement of people will spread COVID-19, particularly in
parts of rural China that have high elderly populations who are ill-equipped to deal with severe outbreaks.
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