Chinese greet Year of the Ox with a COVID-conundrum: Risk infecting family, or mark New Year alone

Many Americans and hundreds of millions of people across Asia were celebrating the Lunar New Year on Friday, kicking off the Year of the Ox. In China, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the traditional rush of people flooding back to their hometowns to reunite with relatives for a week of vacation.

As CBS News Asia correspondent Ramy Inocencio reports from Beijing, millions were stuck with a difficult choice: To stay, or to go?

For Sun Jiayi, it was a go. The writer hopped onto a new...