Asia’s Year of the Ox Starts in Covid’s Shadow

Ox stuffed toys for Lunar New Year in a shop in Chinatown, Singapore on Jan. 5 — Ox stuffed toys for Lunar New Year in a shop in Chinatown, Singapore on Jan. 5
Photographer: Roslan Rahman/AFP

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February 10, 2021 at 11:05 AM UTC

This Lunar New Year is going to be unlike any other in Asia.

Normally a time of family reunions involving billions of trips home and back starting on New Year’s eve tomorrow, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed everything.