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Uniqlo shuts around half of its China stores due to coronavirus

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/reuters/02/07/20200207-china-health.jpg"/><figcaption>A customer wearing a face mask shops at a Uniqlo store inside a shopping mall in Beijing, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, Feb. 1, 2020. Stringer via Reuters</figcaption></figure></div><p>TOKYO - Japan&#x27;s Fast Retailing, which operates casual clothing chain Uniqlo, said it has temporarily closed around 370 of its 750 stores in China due to the coronavirus outbreak.</p><p>China has been a key growth market for the company, which faces a saturated market and weak consumer spending in Japan.</p><p>In mainland China, the number of deaths from the virus outbreak stood at 636, more than doubling in just under a week, with infections at 31,161.</p>

<p>Japan's Fast Retailing, which operates casual clothing chain Uniqlo, said it has temporarily closed around 370 of its 750 stores in China due to the coronavirus outbreak.</p>

Japan's Fast Retailing, which operates casual clothing chain Uniqlo, said it has temporarily closed around 370 of its 750 stores in China due to the coronavirus outbreak.