Chinese travel booking platforms from Trip.com to Alibaba Group's Fliggy sa...
) Fliggy said on Tuesday they would offer free cancellations on bookings made for Wuhan amid mounting fears over a viral outbreak in the central Chinese city.
As of Tuesday, nearly 300 people had been diagnosed globally, with all but a handful in China, and most of them in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people. This has sent jitters among travelers as hundreds of millions of Chinese are prepare to travel for the Lunar New Year holiday this week. “Three of our friends canceled their trips too. We’ll stay at home during the holiday. I’m scared as I remember SARS very well,” she said, referring to the 2002/2003 spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , another coronavirus which broke out in China and killed nearly 800 people globally.
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