It requires four hours and the equivalent of £40 to travel first class along the 800km of railway between Wuhan and Shanghai. In geographical terms, for China, it is a short trip. Yet it is a journey that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the Covid-19 pandemic that was first found in Wuhan in late 2019, has…

Henan, Day 3: TaiHangShan and GuoLiang Background:Prior to the 1970s, the village of Guoliang was isolated to an extreme degree. Atop a crest in the Taihangshan mountain range, it was connected to the world below only via a walking path which took hours to navigate. With the Cultural Revolution burning around the nation, the villagers…