This time of year is normally peak season for Li Zimin, a strawberry farmer in J...
JIUJIANG, China - This time of year is normally peak season for Li Zimin, a strawberry farmer in Jiujiang, a Chinese city on the outer edge of an exclusion zone aimed at bottling up a coronavirus epidemic that has killed almost 500 people.
Li, 38, has 23 greenhouses covering 1.5 acres, but his sales have plummeted, with customers staying at home to avoid contagion. Many of his now ripe strawberries might have to be thrown away, he said.“This year it has coincided with this, so there will definitely be losses,” he said of the outbreak. “I just hope this epidemic can be over quickly. That way my strawberries can return to normal sales levels.
Jiujiang, which is separated from Hubei by the Yangtze river, has reported 86 cases of infection. The city of about 5 million people has restricted access to the bridges connecting it to Hubei and is also monitoring the river.
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