Handling 2 weeks of quarantine to be at Chinaplas

Our China-based reporter Rebecca Kanthor caught up with three of the quarantine travelers on the show floor to ask why it was so important to be at the fair, which ran April 13-16 in Shenzhen, and how they passed their time in isolation — books and TV, exercise, working, playing saxophone and not liking the hotel much.

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