FEAR OF INFECTION:
Chinese authorities are offering extra pay to workers to stay put, while the US reinstituted restrictions and Canada barred flights to the Caribbean
They are the annual journeys of late winter and early spring: Factory workers in China heading home for the Lunar New Year; US college students going on road trips and hitting the beach over spring break; Germans and Britons fleeing drab skies for some Mediterranean sun over Easter.
All of it canceled, in doubt or under pressure because of COVID-19.
Amid fears of new variants of the novel coronavirus,…