Uh, not usually known as a man of the people.

China's president was filmed out and about in Beijing today, wearing his mask, asking about the price of vegetables and carefully, not shaking hands.

We must have confidence, he told them.

Will overcome this virus?

Absolutely, they chorused back.

I had one of Beijing's main hospitals.

He had his temperature taken, another image designed to suggest that he knows what ordinary Chinese air going through.

Today's appearance comes after grumbling that he's been missing on the job scarcely seen since the academics started.

He made a video called Health Workers 700 miles away at the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan, thanking them on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party in Wuhan.

Medical workers are under huge pressure, dawning double layers of protective clothing so they don't catch the virus working for six hour shifts without even a toilet break so they don't contaminate the suits.

But despair is not an option.

Was all candle out of the car?

No, it's none.

Cangzhou TV.

So you bought a house where the hole that's it to the Kurds and even to hold a younger just what kind of shots I'm not even household.

Just a shell.

No, she won't.

No more tennis or to you.

I don't wish several hotels have been requisitioned.

Is quarantine sites with surveillance video and staff ensuring that no one escapes?

It's not just people's lives that you're in danger, but also their livelihood.

Tze Wu Han's economy has ground to a halt The problem I have no income for this month.

So uh, from a company I have to pay my employees the basic pay.

At least they're basically saying I'm no sure that I can keep my company looking for a long time.

Uh, maybe one month, maybe two miles on me if I can't get enough profits to pay the employees to pay the rental, so I have to shut down my company.

That's a big problem for me in Shanghai.

Starbucks is one of thousands of businesses that have temporarily closed with retail and service is hit worst.

China's growth will slow or possibly even contract.

The Apple store is also closed, but more seriously, so a factories were parts for apple products are made.

China's output is critical to the global economy.

Miss An announced today that it will temporarily halt production in one plant in Japan because Corona virus has stopped the supply of components from China.

Last week high on Die in South Korea did the same.

Sony announced today that it will become the fifth company to pull out of an annual mobile phone conference that last year attracted 100,000 visitors to Barcelona.

The Chinese government told people to return to work today, but the Metro's in Beijing and Shanghai were virtually empty hygiene instructions on the screen.

If the epidemic doesn't ease soon, the impact on China on the global economy may be felt through 2020 and beyond.