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I Flew to See My Parents and Ended Up in Coronavirus Quarantine

  • A trip from Hong Kong to Seoul takes an unexpected turn
  • ‘I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to meet with a doctor’
A trip from Hong Kong to Seoul to visit family took an unexpected turn for QuickTake reporter Stella Ko. This is her experience of quarantine in South Korea’s capital.Source: QuickTake
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I felt hundreds of eyes staring as my heart pounded, blood rushed to my face and sweat dripped down the back of my neck.

I had just stepped off the plane at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport, and this wasn’t what I’d expected. For weeks I’d been covering the coronavirus outbreak for Bloomberg News in Hong Kong -- tracking the case counts, the travel restrictions and all the rest.