Masks, donations, and online salsa classes: Canadians worry, cope amid coronavirus outbreak

Some flew halfway around the world to reunite with family and friends but have ended up alone. Others arrived only to have travel plans change. Expatriates worried about when they would be able to return to Canada. And here at home, anxiety over loved ones in China.

For hundreds of millions of Chinese -- and those with family members in Canada and elsewhere around the world -- China’s most important holiday is different this year.

Minjie Wu lives in Toronto, but her father, a Canadian resident, is in self-isolation more than 11,000 km away in Wuhan, the epicentre of a new coronavirus outbreak that has infected thousands worldwide and killed hundreds. The distance has left her feeling helpless and concerned.

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