From Wuhan, where the pandemic began, a first-person account of disease and how it scars the spirit
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The last batch of 49 patients being discharged from the field module hospital in Wuhan's Hongshan Stadium. All the 16 field module hospitals in the city, set up to treat Covid-19 patients, were closed after March 10.
Synopsis
In the Chinese city of Wuhan, many recovered patients have returned home after spending weeks in hospitals and quarantine stations. However, some of them continue to experience the scars of disease and ostracism from their communities. In an interview, one of them, a 70-year-old retiree Li, narrates his experience.
By Matthew Walsh On Wednesday, authorities in the central Chinese province of Hubei, where the country’s Covid-19 epidemic started, began rolling back transport restrictions designed to check the spread of the new coronavirus. The announcement, which will extend to the 11 million-strong city of Wuhan from April 8, suggests Chinese officials are growing increasingly confident that they have successfully brought the outbreak under control. In
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