Chinese New Year 2020: all you need to know

Celebrations in Beijing may have been cancelled, but the rest of the world will ring in the Year of the Rat in style

Dragon celebrations
(Image credit: 2011 AFP)

Tomorrow marks the start of the Year of the Rat with Chinese New Year celebrations getting under way across the globe, while China battles to contain an outbreak of a deadly coronavirus.

In Beijing, officials announced this week that the city’s major new year events – which were expected to attract thousands of tourists – will be cancelled to control the spread of the virus, which has so far killed 26 people in the country.

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