The machines lay idle at the mill in Suifenhe, the Chinese border city roughly 75 miles from the Russian port city of Vladivostok. Without the machines the workers cut, stack and sort the wood by hand, continuing work in a region that felt it had remained largely untouched by the new coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.
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(FILES) Russian border guards at their post across from the Chinese border town of Suifenhe, northeastern Heilongjiang province.
