At least 346 Chinese nationals who travelled from Moscow through Suifenhe contracted the disease, turning the town into a point of strain for the 'strategic partnership.'
The machines lay idle at the mill in Suifenhe, the Chinese border city roughly 75 miles from the Russian port city of Vladivostok. Without the machines the workers cut, stack and sort the wood by hand, continuing work in a region that felt it had remained largely untouched by the new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.
Though China had seen coronavirus cases decline since mid-March, when a spokesperson for the National Health Commission ,"Broadly speaking, the peak of the epidemic has passed for China... The increase of new cases is falling." The country has since battled to contain a rise in imported cases, many from Russia.
"They very clearly said 'we are scared, so we don't want to come', and we can't force them to come," said Su.
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