As the coronavirus spreads nationwide, travelers worry about unwanted exposure as they crisscross China in packed trains and planes
BEIJING—More people in China are staying closer to home during this week’s Lunar New Year holiday as a newly identified virus and financial pressures push more to dial back travel plans.
The movement of hundreds of millions of people across China and outside the country each year during the Spring Festival—either to visit family or, increasingly, to take a vacation—is commonly described as the world’s largest annual human migration.
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