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Residents monitoring the entrance to a residential compound in Beijing yesterday. Most Chinese are living in fear and staying home, but there is no widespread chaos or mass exodus - a sign that the Communist Party's credibility is pretty much intact.
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Benjamin Kang Lim Global Affairs Correspondent In Beijing , Benjamin Kang Lim
Consternation, commendation, condemnation, contemplation, compassion and confidence - all these sum up the mood in China amid an outbreak of the lethal coronavirus in Wuhan.
The epidemic has spread from this provincial capital of Hubei in central China to all 31 Chinese provinces and municipalities as well as more than two dozen countries and regions. It has infected over 28,000 and killed more than 550 as of yesterday, sowing fear but not panic.
