Jonathan Niu waits at John F. Kennedy International Airport, to accompany his father, Niu Fang Xiu and mother, Liu Xiu Lan back to their home in Hefei in east China, along with cardboard boxes filled with 200 face masks, in New York, U.S, January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Allen
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jonathan Niu got to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport five hours early on Friday, not least because he had a lot of luggage to check for his flight to his native China: He was hauling back boxes filled with hundreds of face masks.
His mother and father, both in their 70s, came to visit him in New York about five months ago, their first trip there in 20 years. In the interim, a new coronavirus has emerged in China and become a fast-spreading global health crisis, prompting foreign governments to fly their citizens out of the country.
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