• An extended Lunar New Year holiday provides people from the self-ruled island with the opportunity to rethink their careers as the death toll from the deadly infection continues to rise
• Online poll finds 63 per cent of Taiwanese unwilling to return to mainland China over health concerns

South China Morning Post
Date: 23 Feb, 2020
By: Lawrence Chung

Taiwanese account manager Douglas Liu values his life more than his job, which is why he will be staying at home on Monday rather than going back to work in the mainland China city of Suzhou.

Liu returned to his home in Taipei on January 10 for an extended 

Lunar New Year 

 holiday – and to vote in the island’s presidential election – and planned to go back to work on February 1. But as the 

coronavirus epidemic 

 worsened, the 45-year-old changed his plans.

“Last week, my company told me I should resume work on February 24, but after I argued in vain over the risk of returning to Suzhou, I tendered my resignation,” he said. “After all, my life is more important.”

Liu works for a firm that manufactures chest freezers for the mainland Chinese market.
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