Reporter’s Notebook: Spending New Year’s Eve in the Eye of the Virus Storm
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Caixin reporters, under full protective gears, write down each other’s name on the back to help identify. Photo: Caixin
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(Wuhan) – Yesterday was New Year’s Eve in China.
Social media posts circulated online describing Wuhan, the city locked down because of the virus, as ‘hell on earth’ – saying things are out of control, that medical workers don’t have enough food supplies, and that desperate patients had even attacked doctors by ripping open their protective gowns.
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