While damage has been concentrated in Hunan province and the Guangxi region, authorities were monitoring the situation in the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic
, which lies along the Yangtze River, Vice Minister of Water Resources Ye Jianchun said Thursday at a briefing.Guangxi’s crucial tourism sector, already hit hard by the pandemic, has suffered further losses from the floods.
Firefighters and other public workers pitched in helping to clear debris and spray disinfectant, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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