The 24-year-old native of Wuhan, China, had gone to celebrate the holiday with her family on the southern island of Hainan. After an initial visit by local officials in Hainan to take the family members’ temperature, they began a self-imposed quarantine for 14 days. Hainan, a fast-developing holiday island that sits off China’s southern coast in the South China Sea, is sometimes called China’s Hawaii. Ms. Zhong’s family travels there regularly in hopes that the warmer climate will strengthen the health of her grandparents. When the self-imposed quarantine was over, Ms. Zhong went to the beach with family members for exercise.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2020 10:18 UTC