March 29, 2024
Watch how Wuhan is rebuilding itself three years after the first case of COVID |  amazing

Watch how Wuhan is rebuilding itself three years after the first case of COVID | amazing

Post-pandemic Wuhan follows a motto: a city that changes every day

On January 23, 2020, the Chinese city of Wuhan, known as “the city where everything changes”, was placed under lockdown to prevent the still unknown Covid-19 virus from spreading. Train stations and airports were closed at that time. This was the first lockdown of the pandemic.

Fantástico entered China in the first week as the country reopened to tourists and journalists. a journey of at least four hours by express train, No one has even taken staff temperature and no Covid test or proof of vaccination is required.

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“The city is back to normal. Everything is working normally, as it always was before the pandemic. And I think even a little more than that, the crowd is excited to walk around the street. It loves to be in the sun, it loves to be in the water, “explains Caleb Guerra PhD candidate in Classical Chinese Literature.

Since the pandemic began, the scientific community has been trying to discover the origin of the virus. One hypothesis, which has fueled many conspiracy theories, is that there may have been an accidental leak from a lab in the city.

There is a lot of speculation, including from American intelligence. Recently, the DOE began looking into this leak theory, and the next sentence in the report was: “With a low level of certainty,” says Gerald Koch, a virologist at Boston University in the US.

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China’s Covid-Zero policy has made images of Wuhan hard to forget, like those of volunteers going door-to-door. They were part of the government’s effort to keep everyone at home.

Retired Su Jianwei was one of them. He saw some friends get sick, but he believed that he came out of the epidemic stronger.

“I never panic, and I always follow the recommendations. I started volunteering during the epidemic and it has benefited me a lot. I will now continue to help the community and people of Wuhan in this way,” says Jianwei.

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