BEIJING - Bundled up in winter clothes as they head home for the Lunar New Year holiday amid a health scare over a mystery new virus, Chinese travellers on the teeming concourse of Beijing West station were evenly split between the masked and the barefaced.
"My Beijing colleagues joked and said 'when you come back to work, we'll have to quarantine you for two weeks'," Ms Tan said, trying to make light of the dampener the scare has put on the most important holiday for Chinese families. "All the trending items were about this pneumonia outbreak, so I thought we should buy a mask and take some kind of a preventative measure," said Ms Liao, a petite 26-year-old, trailing a wheelie bag.
Symptoms include fever and difficulty in breathing, like many other respiratory diseases. While it is unclear whether masks provide effective protection, for people with no other information they are the most obvious precaution."Today we've sold out all the single-use masks, and I need to prepare for tomorrow's supply," said a worker at a branch of Beike Drug Store."Demand has surged ten times compared with before the disease broke out.
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