‘Let’s not shake hands’: Xi tours Beijing February 10, 2020 at 04:46PM

He visited a neighbourhood community centre, a hospital and a centre for disease control in Chaoyang, one of the capital’s largest districts. And for the first time, he also spoke directly — via video conferencing — to those most directly fighting the outbreak: medical workers in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak. Xi, wearing a surgical mask, declared Wuhan “a city of heroes,” according to a commentator on CCTV.