After 76 days, the lockdown on Wuhan to contain the spread of the coronavirus was finally lifted at midnight on April 8. China correspondent Elizabeth Law, who is based in Beijing, returns to the city to see how things have changed.
The night I arrived just before the city's lockdown was lifted, Wuhan's streets were mostly empty.State TV had shown images of cars queueing up at a toll booth, their drivers vying to be among the first to leave the moment the city reopened. But by the time we visited the next day, some eight hours later, the queues were gone, replaced by a stream of vehicles.As the days went by, more cars started returning, but traffic is still a far cry from normal. Even pedestrian traffic is sparse.
Hundreds were out and about, but most kept a distance except in a snaking queue - sans safe distancing - at a skewers shop.When I returned last Saturday, it seemed that the novelty of being out had worn off and most of the street was largely deserted. But it could also be the sudden drop in temperature that kept people home - no one wants to get a cold, much less a fever in these times.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Coronavirus: China got it right by locking down Wuhan, German study saysThe citywide lockdowns and other extreme measures used by China to contain the coronavirus were effective in curbing the spread of Covid-19 and led to the outbreak peaking in early February, a Germany study says.According to the research by academics from the Humboldt University of Berlin, the number
Read more »
Coronavirus: Lockdowns in Wuhan, Hubei long lifted but some Chinese workers still stuckThose travelling within China need to apply for permission from their local neighbourhood committee, their companies, as well as the neighbourhood committee of their destination city.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Read more »
Getting a coronavirus test in Wuhan: fast, cheap and easyCoronavirus tests can be difficult to come by in many countries including in hard-hit parts of the United States and Britain, but in Wuhan, the Chinese epicentre of the pandemic, they are fast, cheap and easy to get. Cities including Beijing have required some arriving travelers to present test results
Read more »
Wet markets in China's Wuhan struggle to survive COVID-19 blowFish and vegetable merchants are reopening stalls at wet markets in China's central city of Wuhan as it lifts a months-long lockdown against the ...
Read more »
Commentary: How Wuhan mobilised to survive an over-70 day COVID-19 lockdown - and bounced backWuhan demonstrated incredible resilience against the coronavirus as businesses and society got into action to fight the outbreak, say East Asian ...
Read more »
Coronavirus: Lockdowns in Wuhan, Hubei long lifted but some Chinese workers still stuckThose travelling within China need to apply for permission from their local neighbourhood committee, their companies, as well as the neighbourhood committee of their destination city.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Read more »