How the pandemic changed Wuhan

The World

A year ago, the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic reportedly originated, went under full lockdown. The city of 11 million people hasn’t had a single reported COVID-19 case since last May. But the experience — isolation, fear and death — changed people there. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor reports.

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