Exactly one year after it thrust the word “lockdown” into the global conversation, Wuhan passed the anniversary on Saturday with a mix of pride at emerging from Covid-19’s grip and caution over a possible relapse. Huang Genben, 76, spent 67 days in hospital fighting Covid-19 last year, spitting up blood and expecting to die. – ‘I feel pain’ –“We can tell from the results that the policy of the government was correct, the cooperation of (Wuhan) citizens was correct. The virus is generally believed to have spread from a Wuhan wet market where exotic animals were sold as food. The lockdown anniversary comes with World Health Organization experts just days from completing a two-week quarantine in Wuhan before launching a planned investigation into the coronavirus’s origins.

Source: Punch January 23, 2021 06:00 UTC