With hundreds of thousands of people forced to remain indoors in China because of the coronavirus epidemic, gym routines have hit the live streaming circuit.
With many unsure how long the lockdown will remain, local gym owners have been looking at various ways to keep their businesses going until customers start venturing back.
Gym instructors now offer online classes for free, with some even renting out gym equipment for extra cash.
"We don't want our clients to forget us. We are trying to do something to comfort everyone," said Chris Li, Pilates Proworks' owner.
"I just want to protect my existing customers," admitted Liu Xiaojin, founder of a chain of gyms called Gravity Plus in Beijing. "But if we can find a real way to stimulate our cash flow that will be great as well."
Meanwhile, the death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached 1,873, with thousands of people handed varying forms of travel restrictions and other quarantine measures.
Five people have died and more than 80 are missing after a ferry caught fire off Palawan island in the western Philippines on Wednesday night, the Philippine Coast Guard said on Thursday.
The US military said on Wednesday three people have been killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, the latest in a series of attacks that Washington says target "narco-terrorists" but human rights groups condemn as extrajudicial killings.
At least 14 people were killed and 11 wounded on Wednesday in an explosion at a temporary site used to store weapons and remnants of war near the Syrian city of Sarmada in Idlib province, state television reported.
The United States has destroyed five Iranian oil carriers on Tuesday after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targeted its navy warship with ballistic missiles "twice over the past two days".
Britain's NATS air traffic control provider has a week to investigate the systems failure that halted flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers, the government said, as pressure mounts on its chief executive.
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday dissolved parliament and announced snap elections for next month as he seeks to extend his hold on power by running for prime minister.
Norway's King Harald Vwas being laid to rest on Wednesday, in a series of ceremonies marking the culmination of 13 days of national mourning following his death at the age of 89.
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