Labour vs luxury: virus tracing highlights China's inequality

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The stark contrast between the lives of two coronavirus patients unearthed by Chinese contact tracers sparked a widespread debate on Thursday over the country's entrenched wealth inequality.

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Another hauled construction waste through the night across China's capital, working more than a dozen odd jobs in two weeks while he searched for a missing son.

The itinerary of a 44-year-old man surnamed Yue, who was found to have an asymptomatic infection on Tuesday, went viral for the life of hardship it revealed. Yue said his wife worked for a kelp seller in Shandong province, earning only 10,000 yuan each year, while he was able to make a similar amount doing odd jobs in Beijing in less than two months.

The earlier patient, an affluent office worker, had celebrated New Year's Day with a Peking duck lunch, shopped at a luxury boutique and visited a theatre the next day. She then went skiing the following weekend.

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