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		</div><p>Chinese travellers flocked to train stations and airports on Friday to take part in a nationwide ritual ahead of the Lunar New Year: the world’s biggest annual human migration.</p>
<p>Around three billion trips will be made during the spring festival travel rush, China’s transport ministry has estimated.</p>
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<p>The period began this year on January 10 and is expected to last through February 18, well after Lunar New Year’s Day on January 25.</p>
<p>The festivities as China moves into the Year Of The Rat are a time for family reunions and abundant feasts.</p>
<p>For migrant labourers who work in cities far from home, it may be the one time in the year that they can see their relatives.</p>
<p>Extra precautions will be taken with this year’s journey, as a viral pneumonia outbreak has struck central China.</p>
<p>In the city of Wuhan, 41 people have been diagnosed with a new</p>
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<p>Two patients have died.</p>
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<p>Transport hubs will strengthen disinfection, monitoring and prevention measures, said Wang Yang, the Chinese ministry of transport’s chief engineer.</p>
<p>“The emergence of the epidemic may cause panic among people, especially in areas where people are concentrated during the spring festival travel period,” the engineer told reporters at a news conference last week.</p>
<p>There were no signs of additional screening or other measures to combat the spread of germs Friday morning at Beijing South Station, where thousands thronged the station’s main hall.</p>
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<p>Officers at a police outpost said they were not aware of the coronavirus outbreak.</p>
<p>A woman named Wang Liu at the station’s service counter said she “had not heard of” the situation.</p>
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