Medical workers take coronavirus patients to their isolation wards at the newly built Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Photo: Xinhua
Opinion
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On Reflection
Coronavirus: why hygiene fears strike at the heart of modern China
- China’s hygiene fixation is rooted in trying to combat Western and Japanese colonialists. Even wartime bombs wouldn’t stop the struggle against sewage
- Decades on, the coronavirus is exposing a problem with China’s modernising: a lack of transparency that is becoming increasingly unhealthy
Medical workers take coronavirus patients to their isolation wards at the newly built Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Photo: Xinhua