The blow to the auto industry, which employs eight million people worldwide, comes at a time when output from the world’s factories is already sagging. A city’s plan for getting people to the doctor: Don’t let them buy medicine. As such restrictions have increased, so have people’s fears about being suspected to have the virus. In recent weeks, several articles in Chinese news media have told of people who used medicine to suppress coronavirus symptoms in order to get through the country’s now ubiquitous fever-screening checkpoints. “Good, I strongly support this,” wrote one user, calling for the elimination of “every possible loophole that could spread the virus.”

Source: International New York Times February 08, 2020 05:07 UTC