“When customers come in, we first take their temperature, then use disinfectant and ask them to wash their hands.”
The Chinese president, who has called the virus a “demon”, made a rare visit Monday to meet the frontline medical staff at a hospital treating infected patients.
He appointed Premier Li Keqiang to lead a working group tackling the outbreak, and it was Li who visited ground zero in Wuhan last month. Video footage showed Xi having his temperature taken with an infrared thermometer, then speaking with community workers and waving at smiling residents leaning out of their apartment windows.
The Shanghai government suggested staggered work schedules, avoiding group meals and keeping at least one metre away from colleagues.State media reported that passenger numbers on the Beijing subway were down by about half on Monday compared to a normal work day.One bank employee in Shanghai was heading to work for a half-day, with other workers due to take over in the afternoon.“It makes our work more difficult because we need to access the systems in our office,” he told AFP.
But another 65 people aboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship moored off Japan have been diagnosed with novel coronavirus, the health ministry said Monday, bringing the total number of known infections to 135. “I just checked and it would take 18 hours for me to go to work by bicycle,” wrote one frustrated commuter on China’s Twitter-like social media site Weibo.
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