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At the zero point of the global pandemic, life goes on

 


Shop glasses over the previous onesWholesale Huanan Seafood Markethavereopened,touristsThey areflocktoYellow Crane Tower, and masked entertainers are being packed around the cities clubs.

Wuhan Chinese metropolisbelievedbe zero for a pandemic yetdevastatingeconomies andtaking lifesheaveworld it seems to have largely turned into a speciesnormal.

The city of approximately 11 million people suffered dearly in the first months of COVID-19. But the official count of cases for Hubei province, where Wuhan is the capital, has hardly come out since April. By August, thousands of people in Wuhan were gathering en massepool parties. The students have now returned to the closely monitored schools where the teachers areencouragedto demonstrate an anti-epidemic spirit. And a well-known local punk band recently managed to release onenew album.

Wuhans’s experience may not necessarily be soothing. While its proof that COVID-19 can be controlled even in the most hit countries, doing so in this city included a kind of draconian measures with which governments found elsewhere have only flirted.

In January, Wuhan got into such a severe stalemate that most of him remains onemysteryin the outside world. What is known is that on the morning of January 23 all transport in and out of the city wastrapped, and house to housesearcheswas then carried out to gather the sick and quarantine them. Artist Ai Weiwei has made adocumentary filmin connection with the brutally efficient endeavor.

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The search hassuggestedthat without Wuhan’s strict blockade, COVID-19 cases in 347 Chinese cities outside Hubei province would have been 65% higher during those early days of the outbreak.

The National Health Commission of the countryannouncedthat China had reached the peak of the pandemic on March 12 a point when countries including Turkey and Honduras werereportingtheir first cases and the US had reported less than 1,000 in total (the US has recently beenrecordingon average approximately 60,000 new cases per day).

After 11 weeks of blocking, Wuhan started coming out in April. Its residents were finally allowed to leave without special authorization after they had fired one mandatorysmartphone app that tracks their health and proximity to anyone found to have the virus.

While detention efforts in the US andotherscountries have been widelypanned, official government figures in China show an extremely effective and sustained effort to prevent the widespread spread of coronavirus outside Hubei province.

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Earlier this week, Chinareportedthat its economy grew by 4.9% in the third quarter, compared to a contraction of 6.8% in the first quarter. Post-pandemic reconstruction of countries has raised hopes that it may now be able to help pull the rest of the world out of its economic situation even though some economists areskeptical.

For more context, here are links for further reading byStrategic Intelligence platform of World Economic Forums:

  • Dont begrudge Wuhan her pool parties images of festive crowds that began gathering at Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park over the summer drew some criticism as insensitive, but according to this analysis that narrative oversees the great human suffering endured by the city.(diplomat)
  • Countries that have handled the pandemic well in the country have seen their competencies rewarded with improved positions abroad. China has been the only exception, according to this analysis.(Lowy Institutes)
  • The Wuhan SMZB band, which recently released a new album, played an integral role in building the local punk community, according to the report. A line in the band Great Wuhan song translates as, it will be beautiful, it will take freedom / it will not be a prison here forever.(radii)
  • The pandemic centered on the head of a group studying bat bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, following speculation that the coronavirus escaped from its lab. In this report, she tries to set the record straight.(science)
  • A correspondent for a German publication living in China finds that the strict measures implemented to contain COVID-19 are so integrated into daily life that he no longer notices them, although he doubts that democracies will have the will or desire to to reproduce them.(mirror)
  • At least part of the decline in China-US relations is attributed to the pandemic in particular China’s reluctance to allow an independent investigation into its origins and the country’s potential to arm the vaccines it is developing, according to the US-based researcher. (diplomat)
  • Wuhans’ efforts to revive its economy have included distributing nearly $ 12 million in vouchers for residents to try and boost local tourism, paying monthly allowances for tour guides and offering subsidies to cultural and tourism firms, according to this report.(Yicai Global)

This article is cured by World Economic Forum.

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