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LIFE IN VIRUS GROUND ZERO

IT WAS the opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to spread her wings and fly. So when newly graduated teacher Jessika Bailing left her East London home in South Africa on a flight to China she couldn’t have been more excited.

Jessika (23) chose to make her new home in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, for its lively atmosphere and wide variety of restaurants.

But fast-forward one year and her apartment in the city feels more like a jail cell than a springboard to adventure.

She hasn’t seen her class of three- to six-year-olds in

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