ADThe outbreak came just a few days before the Lunar New Year festival, the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar. Whenever someone offers surgical masks for sale online, she said, the masks are gone within minutes. All are healthy and coronavirus-free so far, Lee said — and all of them vowed never to go outside without face masks. Brandon Lee first learned about the coronavirus during AP Biology class at Falls Church High School last week, he said. Midway through the parade, children danced through the streets, flinging handfuls of plastic-wrapped fortune cookies into the air.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2020 01:44 UTC