No going back: Bali's Chinese tourists fear virus-hit homeland

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DENPASAR, Indonesia: Hundreds of Chinese tourists on vacation in Bali are scrambling to avoid going home, fearing both infection from the deadly ...

Li says he does not believe Beijing's assurances that the country is getting the epidemic under control.

Around a million Chinese tourists visit Bali each year - the second-largest group of foreign arrivals after Australians - and inject hundreds of millions of dollars into the local economy. Beijing flew home groups of overseas tourists from around Asia last month citing the"practical difficulties" they faced abroad, as fears of the contagion prompted several countries to bar entry to arrivals who had recently been in China."I wasn't surprised," Bali Tourism Agency chief Putu Astawa told AFP.Zilong Wang of Beijing said he was postponing his return because he believed his government had underplayed the infection's true toll.

 

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