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  • Coronavirus: Chinese officials scrambling to keep food flowing to cities on lockdown

    Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/6525244/c...arantine-food/

    Coronavirus: Chinese officials scrambling to keep food flowing to cities on lockdown
    By JOE McDONALD The Associated Press
    Posted February 8, 2020 8:52 am

    The manager of the Wushang Mart in Wuhan, the locked-down city at the heart of China’s virus outbreak, says its shelves are loaded with 50 per cent more vegetables and other food than usual to reassure jittery customers.

    Communist leaders are trying to keep food flowing to crowded Chinese cities despite anti-disease controls and to quell fears of possible shortages and price spikes following panic buying after most access to Wuhan was cut off Jan. 23.

    Employees at the Wushang Mart wear masks and protective suits. Customers wash their hands with disinfectant and are checked for the virus’s telltake fever, said the manager, who would give only her surname, Lu...
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