Correspondent in Beijing
No Valentine's Day for "Lin Mo". This 21-year-old worker had already spent the last two nights under a bridge in Canton, and was still looking for accommodation on social media in the afternoon of the feast of lovers. "Tonight, I don't know where I'm going to sleep," said the young man already Wednesday, as the wet night fell on the rainy avenues of the southern megalopolis of Greater China.
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Since the coronavirus hatched, the vagrant has wandered like a troubled soul in search of a roof, on social networks. “I have already slept in a corridor of a building, on cardboard boxes. When it does not rain, the cold is still bearable, " said the worker, who agreed to testify by telephone under this assumed name, caught up in the psychosis that surrounds the most populous country in the world at the time of Covid-19.
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