Irish teacher Ben Kavanagh spends birthday alone in Wuhan as coronavirus grips Chinese city
An Irish teacher living in China, spent his birthday alone in locked-down Wuhan as the deadly coronavirus continues to ravage the city.
He has been living in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province, for almost two years now. "You're suspicious of other people, strangely - 'maybe that person's infected and they don't know it' - 'cause there's such a long incubation period and you can still infect others".“I’m trying my best not to get infected.”
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