Wang Feng embarked on the 1,000km journey home to celebrate the lunar new year uncertain whether she would return to Kunshan, near Shanghai, where she had worked at a large smartphone factory for the past year.
The 24-year-old said she was tired of screwing tiny plastic parts together. Like millions of other migrant workers all over the country, she intended to use the holiday to think about a new job less boring or closer to her family.
The coronavirus outbreak has made the decision for her. A day after Ms Wang arrived home in Yanjing, a small town in the central Chinese province of Hunan, the government closed off Wuhan where the outbreak started, and then almost the entire surrounding Hubei province.
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