Daily life with the coronavirus

The World

The arrival of the coronavirus has many people rethinking relationships at home and work and across generations. Author Yashu Zhang has been writing about that — she first experienced the virus’ arrival in Pudung, the district of Shanghai where she works, and later in her hometown in Hunan province, where she recently visited her grandparents.

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