Johannesburg - The fear on Derrick Avenue has driven away the tourists and emptied the restaurants. It’s Wednesday afternoon and the usually busy New Chinatown of Cyrildene is quiet. Some of the few who have ventured out onto the streets are wearing surgical masks in fear of the coronavirus, which is yet to make landfall in South Africa.
“People are just staying away, they would rather stay at home and wait for the situation to improve,” says Clive Kuan, who is in charge of environmental affairs with the Chinatown Johannesburg Community Committee. It’s Chinese nationals who are staying away. Some are in self-imposed quarantine for 14 days, having returned from China, locking themselves in the flats that line Derrick Avenue.
One business owner, who doesn’t want to be named, says it is the worst business has been on the street in 20 years.
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