GRAPHIC-China New Year travel slumps amid coronavirus curbs


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By Muyu Xu and Tony Munroe BEIJING, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The number of people whotravelled in China ahead of Lunar New Year plummeted from twoyears ago as coronavirus restrictions curbed the world's largestannual domestic migration. The seven-day celebration, which kicked off on Thursday, isChina's most important national holiday and is usually marked bybig family reunions. Millions of workers traditionally travel -sometimes thousands of kilometres from Beijing and other majorcities - to their hometowns in remote regions. Data from the Ministry of Transportation, Chinese internetgiant Baidu Inc and travel analytics firm ForwardKeys showed asharp drop in the percentage of the...