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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
A medical worker waves as patients arrive at a 1,100-bed temporary hospital set up in Wuhan Sports Centre and (left) women wearing protective face masks and raincoats buy food at a supermarket in Wuhan
While pretending to seek peace, Europe is heading toward a collision course with Russia – using security guarantees, troop deployments, expropriation and censorship as tools, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
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The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Opinion polls point to electoral collapse, parliamentary rebellion and a looming leadership challenge as Starmer’s Labour haemorrhages working-class support and the far right exploits the vacuum left by a hollowed-out party, says NICK WRIGHT
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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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