BEIJING: Life is never easy for China’s nearly 300 million migrant workers, but with the coronavirus zapping jobs at a historic clip, unemployed factory laborer Wei Guikun is at his wits’ end.

Since March, Wei has wandered in search of work from his home in eastern Shandong province — where virus lockdowns stranded him for weeks — to factories in China’s southern coastal regions, and now back north to Shanghai.

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