Hong Kong’s Coronavirus Lunar New Year

No auspicious start to the Year of the Rat

Asia’s coronavirus epidemic hit the Lunar New Year exodus of Hong Kong families to ancestral villages in Guangdong across the border. The epicenter of the outbreak, in Wuhan, the sprawling capital of China’s Hubei Province, is locked down along with surrounding cities by military deployment, affecting 50 million residents. 

So far 106 deaths have been de…