- A year ago, a notice sent to smartphones in Wuhan at 2am announced the world’s first coronavirus lockdown, bringing the bustling central Chinese industrial and transport centre to a virtual standstill almost overnight. It would last 76 days.
- Early Saturday (Jan 23) morning, however, residents of the city where the virus was first detected were jogging and practising tai chi in a fog-shrouded park beside the mighty Yangtze River.
- Life has largely returned to normal in the city of 11 million, even as the rest of the world grapples with the spread of the virus’ more contagious variants.
- Efforts to vaccinate people for COVID-19 have been frustrated by disarray and limited supplies in some places. The scourge has killed more than 2 million people worldwide.
- The city has been largely free of further outbreaks since the lockdown was lifted on Apr 8, but questions persist as to where the virus originated and whether Wuhan and Chinese authorities acted fast enough and with sufficient transparency to allow the world to prepare for a pandemic that has sickened more than 98 million.
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