Daily Times

When 7-year-old Sophia Cheung hears a truck park outside her home in Hong Kong, she grabs her sheet music and runs out the door. In the truck, instructor Evan Kam, holding a sanitizer bottle and wearing a face mask, greets her by a piano. With schools shut since late January because of the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed four of Hong Kong’s 890 cases, students have been asked to take classes online. But that won’t work very well for piano lessons. Ming’s Piano, a music school with 12 teachers and about 200 students, has hired three trucks to deliver lessons at students’ doorsteps and save its business. For students like Sophia, the lessons are also a rare and welcome opportunity to get out of her home. “I feel very depressed myself, not to mention my children,” said her mother, Wendy Yeung. “They are always asking: ‘When can we go out to play? Where can I go? What else can I do?’.” “Now we have an option.”