a shortage of food items too as panic buying continues at grocery stores in london however frozen food packets imported from kerala are still available in indian stores keralites who savour aviyal thoran and mezhukupuratti have filled their fridges with boxes of frozen kerala dishes in case they run out of vegetables in local storesmost people have started working from home since the beginning of last week however a lot of malayalis cannot afford to do so as the lions share of them work in the medical sector jobin george a 42yearold nurse from kottayam has been on duty for the past seven days many of us have cancelled our annual holidays and volunteered to work extra hours he saidchurch is another major institution that has been affected by the pandemic there is a huge churchgoing malayali community in the uk from friday all churches in britain have decided to stop conducting holy massesright now uncertainty about the virus looms large over the country as the government and the public wonder whether the uk will also be affected as bad as italythe writer is a journalist based in londonchinese operaby anila p ajayanwuhan the notsofamous chinese city had been sending shock waves across the world after it became the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak those terrifying days are over now the city has changed chinese authorities said thursday that wuhan and its surrounding province had no new cases to report for us the city was known for its picturesque donghu lake parks museums and its friendly people the people in the shops especially the elderly would greet the customers with ni hao hello accompanied by a disarming smileit was at 915am on january 23 that we received a message notifying that entry and exit to wuhan will be closed from 10am within 45 minutes we had to get ready for a lockdown public transportation was blocked and residential quarters closed yet one has to admit it was the best decision taken by the government to avoid the spread of covid19 to other citiesin february wuhan strengthened screening of suspected patients through community investigations each community residence association checked every house and apartment to locate patients who were infected with the virus the authorities even announced allowances to those who reported about ill people each family had to undergo thermal screening and suspected cases were admitted to hospitals designated hospitals were set up strictly for covid19 patients in addition cabins were built and centralized isolation points were prepared within a short period of timethe death rate is slowing down recovery rate is improving and people are leaving the hospitals healthy temporary hospitals are closing down and public places are being cleaned using disinfectants the other day the government began operating public transport again while some have started using buses others cycle and walk happily around by the lake side i can hear people singing huangmei opera to celebrate the victory over the virus the commendable thing is the resilience showed by