Life on the road alone: A Chinese trucker amid the coronavirus outbreak

Qu Shenghua returned home Monday night from his 14-day quarantine – the first time he came back home in 70 days though he had dropped by several times.

A former heavy truck driver, Qu resumed his decade-long occupation when he learned in late January that people in Wuhan – the then ground zero city of the deadly coronavirus – were confronted with a scarcity of food and other daily necessities given the abrupt lockdown.

"I talked with my wife about my decision. She wanted to go with me but I objected because I didn't know when I would return home and she had to stay to look after the children," Qu told CGTN. He departed on January 26, the second day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar, without informing his mother who only learned from the news that he went to Wuhan.

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