Beijing cancels Chinese New Year celebrations

Beijing authorities have decided to cancel all celebrations in the city on the occasion of the Lunar New Year.

Beijing Bureau of Culture and Tourism: In order to keep the situation around the epidemic under control, protect people’s lives and health, reduce the number of mass events and ensure a peaceful holiday, it was decided to cancel all large-scale events.

Festive fairs will be canceled, and there will be changes in the work of museums and amusement parks.

In China, the New Year according to the lunar calendar was to be celebrated on the night of 24 to 25 January. Earlier, two cities were isolated in the country as part of the fight against the spread of the coronavirus - Huanggan and Wuhan.

The outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan was recorded in December 2019, the pathogen was previously unknown coronavirus 2019-nCoV, its genome has already been deciphered.

Source: interfax