Sealed in: Chinese trapped at home by coronavirus feel the strain


FILE PHOTO: A resident uses a mobile phone to pay for vegetables purchased through group orders at a collection point set up at the entrance of a residential compound in Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, Hubei province, China February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer

BEIJING (Reuters) - During weeks holed up in her grandmother's apartment with 10 relatives and eating a restricted diet, Chinese teenager Li Yuxuan says tempers have frayed.

Li and her family are among the millions of people across China's Hubei province, epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, who are subject to official orders to stay at home amid attempts to contain the spread of the disease.

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