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Life largely returned to normal in the central Chinese city where the virus was first detected, as the rest of the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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People walk along a pedestrian street in Wuhan, China s central Hubei province on January 23, 2021, one year after the city went into lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Hector Retamal/AFP)
The Chinese city of Wuhan marked one year since the start of its traumatic 76-day coronavirus lockdown Saturday, while the pandemic raged elsewhere and governments scrambled to put in place new measures.
Around the world, more than 2.1 million people have died of COVID-19 since it emerged in China in December 2019, with over 98 million infected.
But the picture was vastly different in Wuhan, where humming traffic, bustling sidewalks, and citizens packing parks and public transport underscored the scale of the recovery in the metropolis of 11 million where the pathogen first emerged before going global.