Nearly half of China's population — 780 million people — is living under some form of travel restrictions as authorities continue to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak.
From CNN's Jessie Yeung
An employee packages 100-yuan notes at a bank in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province on July 23, 2018. AFP via Getty Images China's central bank has implemented a new strategy to contain the coronavirus -- deep cleaning and destroying potentially infected cash.This is why buildings in affected areas are regularly disinfecting elevator buttons, door handles, and other commonly-touched surfaces -- and why people are worried about cash, which changes hands multiple times a day.
And in the central bank's Guangzhou branch, these high-risk banknotes may be destroyed instead of merely disinfected, according toTo make up for the supply, the bank will issue large amounts of new cash; in January, the bank allocated 4 billion yuan in new banknotes to Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak began, said the government news release.Each bill, passed person to person, samples a bit of the environment it comes from, and passes those bits to the next person.
The list of things found on US dollar bills includes DNA from our pets, traces of drugs, and bacteria and viruses, according to aThat doesn't mean cash is dangerous to our health; disease transmission linked to money is rare, and no major disease outbreaks have started from our ATMs. But with new coronavirus cases being reported every day in China, the country's officials are taking no chances.
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