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Charlie Duffield

Covid lockdown sees 80,000 tourists stranded on 'China's Hawaii' in holiday horror

A whopping 80,000 tourists have been left stranded on a beautiful island dubbed 'China's Hawaii' after a Covid outbreak sparked a strict lockdown.

The tropical southern island of Hainan in the South China Sea had a nigh-perfect coronavirus track record, having recorded just two positive symptomatic Covid-19 cases in the whole of last year.

Fast forward to this month, however, and the number of cases has suddenly soared, prompting a lockdown in the city of Sanya and leaving tens of thousands of tourists like Yang stuck on the island.

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