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The messaging app WeChat is connecting travellers arriving in Metro from China with volunteers willing to drop cars off at the airport and deliver groceries to their homes, so the travellers can quarantine themselves for two weeks.

It’s a grassroots action based on two weeks being considered the maximum incubation period for the deadly coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China.

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“I just want to offer my help, rather than people feeling like they have to get into a taxi,” said Frank Kong, a local photographer who joined a WeChat group started at the beginning of the week.

He explained how it matched him up with a family that also lives in Burnaby. “I met the wife and drove their car and dropped it off to her husband at the airport.”

He was coming in from Shanghai. “I saw him from a distance. He knew his car. I waved bye,” said Kong.

He then got a ride home from the airport by another driver, also connected to him by the WeChat group.