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BEIJING - School teacher Yu Yuan usually goes on at least two holidays annually to places like Iran and Japan, but has not been on vacation at all this year.

Travel restrictions arising from the coronavirus have kept her home-bound, with Madam Yu, 38, estimating that she has saved nearly 20,000 yuan (S$3,980).

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