Coronavirus: What is life like a year later in Wuhan, the epicenter of the global epidemic?

 Coronavirus: What is life like a year later in Wuhan, the epicenter of the global epidemic?

Exactly one year before J, on January 23, 2020, the first lockdown was imposed in any city in the world due to the Corona epidemic. The lockdown was carried out in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the same city where the Code 19 epidemic is said to have originated.

The whole world was shocked when the Chinese authorities announced the implementation of the lockdown in Wuhan and imposed strict sanctions there. From late January to June, the city was virtually completely cut off from China and the rest of the world.

Although it was a heavy price to pay for the citizens of Wuhan, it was the only effective way to control the epidemic.

By the end of 2019, Wuhan authorities had begun receiving reports of a rare disease (code 19), but they acted relatively cheaply and did not impose restrictions on the movement of the city's millions of citizens. It was a time of preparation for the Chinese New Year, and traditionally more people traveled from one city to another to suit the occasion.

An interim report from the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this week said China's initial response to the epidemic was "incorrect" as public health precautions should have been tightened.

But once the Chinese authorities realized the seriousness of the matter, they launched a crackdown.

On January 23, two days before the Chinese New Year, Hu took to the streets of Wuhan, wearing a face mask and social distance.

Despite intense pressure on hospitals, authorities surprised the world with how they built a field hospital in a matter of days.

But despite these measures, residents, such as Wenjin Wang, were terrified.

Wenjin told the BBC how his uncle died of the plague and his parents were ill but it was impossible to get help. Measures to control the epidemic in Wuhan were implemented in various Chinese cities over the next month, with immediate lockdowns and large-scale rapid corona testing.

The entry into China was controlled by strict border controls and quarantine.

And in doing so, the Chinese authorities tried to strictly control the spread of information. However, this issue kept coming up again and again.

Doctors who initially tried to warn about the epidemic were either punished or silenced. The most famous of these was Dr. Li Wingliang, who later died of corona himself.

News outlets were not allowed to report from Wuhan and journalists were silenced. One of them has recently been sentenced to four years in prison.

Were these measures successful? Although the initial lockdowns imposed in China were described by observers as extremely severe, a year later official data may justify these measures because of the areas in China where severe lockdowns were enforced. There were fewer deaths and fewer cases.

The number of registered cases in China is less than one lakh while the total number of deaths there is 4800.

Unlike other countries, the number of cases in China has fallen sharply since the initial outbreak and there is no sign of a second wave.

However, Chinese data does not include cases where patients did not show symptoms.