'Restaurants are no longer empty': visitors slowly return to UK's Chinatowns
by Nazia Parveen North of England correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#505S3)
It has been a bleak few weeks for Chinese business owners amid the coronavirus outbreak but there are signs of a revival
Though the centre of the coronavirus outbreak is thousands of miles away, Chinatowns across the UK have been weathering their own storm and reporting a substantial downturn in trade.
The increasingly anxious Chinese diaspora initially linked the disappearing footfall to a rise in xenophobia, but it has now been dubbed a new phenomenon - "coronapsychosis" - as the majority of those avoiding Chinatowns in the UK are Chinese.
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