After a new virus forced authorities in Wuhan to shut down the city, many are finding pharmacies are sold out of surgical masks and rubbing alcohol, and supplies of vitamin C tablets are dwindling. Some said grocers were charging exorbitant prices.
BEIJING — Bai Xue had planned a road trip through China’s lush eastern coast to ring in the Lunar New Year, usually a time of lively family reunions and abundant feasts.Wuhan authorities announced not long after midnight on Thursday that the airport and train stations would be closed, and all public transportation suspended by 10 a.m.
She doesn’t plan on meeting up with friends, lest one person infect the others. Because symptoms can take some time to set in, and can feel at first like the common cold, it’s possible that someone may be ill without knowing it. On Thursday, the first day of the travel ban, many Wuhan residents were resigned to their imposed isolation. They were prepared to lay low, stock up and wait.
The epidemic took on tragicomic tones on Douyin, China’s equivalent of the app TikTok, where users in Wuhan shared videos of deserted streets and masked shoppers, overlaid with pop music. One user who said she was fleeing the city at night posted a video of a dark highway, accompanied by a song that crooned: “We all want to go home for the New Year.”
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