9 Feb 2020

China correspondent: "The world's most populous country is on hold"

From Sunday Morning, 7:10 am on 9 February 2020

The outbreak of the coronavirus in China has impacted the world's most populous country in almost every way imaginable, with the City of Beijing announcing on Friday that only 13% of the capital's 30,000 restaurants were open for business. Canada's Globe and Mail Beijing correspondent Nathan VanderKlippe joins the show with all the latest.

A monitor shows the Nikkei stock average rate and Shanghai Stock Exchange, SSE, falling in Tokyo on February 3, 2020 afternoon.( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Photo: Yomiuri/AFP