US EditionOn This Day, Jan. 23: China puts Wuhan in lockdown over COVID-19
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Five years have passed since China decreed the confinement of the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused nearly seven million deaths in the world, according to data from the Johns Hopkins Institute in the United States.
Coronavirus pandemic: Wuhan marks 5th anniversary of lockdown
On January 23, 2020, with the then-unknown virus spreading, Wuhan sealed itself off for 76 days, ushering in China's zero-Covid era of strict travel and health controls and foreshadowing the global disruption yet to come. Today, the city's bustling shopping districts and gridlocked traffic are a far cry from the empty streets and crammed emergency rooms that marked the world's first Covid lockdown.
Five years ago today, the city of Wuhan, with a population of one million in the Chinese region of Hubei, was placed into lockdown.
On January 23, 2020, security forces locked down the train station in China's city of Wuhan. It was the first corona lockdown, even if the disease did not have that name at the time. Benjamin Eyssel looks back.
Wuhan residents remember with bitterness the confinement of more than two months to which they were subjected five years ago, during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, which China faced with an iron policy that isolated it for three years and hampered its economy.” I returned to Wuhan from Beijing on January 15, 2020 to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Then there were only rumors that a respiratory illness was spreading. A few days later, a fr…
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