Fear of viruses, Chinese close stores

(ANSA) - PALERMO, FEBRUARY 26 - Chinese traders close stores for fear of Coronavirus infection by tourists and Palermitans after the discovery of 3 flu virus positive people. At least until next Monday, many shops in the areas of via Maqueda, Lincoln and Ballarò, but also of the small centers at the port have decided to close. On many shutters, the word "Closed for holidays" appears in others, and there are cell phone numbers. Chinese stores do not normally close even August. The Chinese community of Palermo had managed the voluntary isolation of some fellow citizens who had returned from China and were placed in quarantine on their own.
"Yesterday - says a Chinese trader - the biggest wholesalers of Chinese trade met in a restaurant for an aperitif and spoke with tourists from Bergamo who unveiled their tourist route through the streets of the historic center". After a few tam tam started and 85 percent of Chinese stores lowered the doors of the Arab market this morning.