Wuhan wakes up from the letdown of lockdown, the Chinese city from where the spread of the coronavirus began.
After the sad moments, with the patient-stacked hospitals, the deserted streets and the despair in every aspect of everyday life, the lights of the night life have been turned on again.
Seven months after the Chinese city lifted the lockdown, the youngsters have started to find their rhythm again and go to parties.
As in the first wave of the pandemic, so in the second, the images in Wuhan seem inconceivable. This time for a different reason. Crowded streets, suffocatingly crowded nightclubs and music events are a thing of the past for most countries around the world, but they make up for the current reality in Wuhan.
Students, musicians, artists, who have been caged for a long time at home, have enthusiastically taken to the streets and talk about their experience of returning to normalcy.
"We're going to make new music," said Wank Hingao, frontman of a pop band that played music a few hours ago to a crowd of 100 inside a hall.
He danced with the crowd on stage and then threw his coat at the shouting crowd.
In another center of Wuhan, known for its beers, 29-year-old Zhang Yong extinguished her cake after a food war between her and her friends.
"After what we went through in the first wave of the pandemic in Wuhan, freedom is coming. "I feel like I have a second life," said the young woman, who works in a textile store.
"During the pandemic, the city was dead. Now we all go out for food and fun. "I think we are coming out more than we did before the pandemic broke out," said Yi Yi, a rock music student.
Although nightlife is booming in Wuhan, restaurant owners, like many business people, admit it will take some time for the coronavirus to heal in the economy.
Unlike other countries, coronavirus has been significantly reduced in China, after strict measures, many months of lockdown and massive coronavirus tests. It is also important to note that few seniors are housed in nursing homes in China, which in many parts of the world are a health bomb.
What remains to be investigated, however, is how China initially handled the coronavirus outbreak, as it has been criticized by the West for withholding data, while an investigation is expected in early 2021, led by the World Health Organization. Health, which will shed light on the case.
Source: First Topic