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What is life like inside the coronavirus quarantine zone?
CJ ATKINS talks to Chinese national, Lupin, about how the containment measures imposed on his hometown of Wuhan have affected the community there

IT’S been three weeks since authorities in the city of Wuhan quarantined 11 million people in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak spreading across China and around the world.
Except for a few foreign nationals whose governments have ferried them out on charter flights, the capital of epidemic-hit Hubei province remains, essentially, a closed city.
But that doesn’t mean life inside the quarantine zone has come to a complete halt or that people there have lost all hope.
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