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    COVID-19: As Wuhan reopens, people begin to venture outside

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    COVID-19: As Wuhan reopens, people begin to venture outside

    Within hours of China lifting an 11-week lockdown, thousands people had left the city


    Published:  April 08, 2020 21:27 AP  and  Nathaniel Lacsina, Digital Content Editor

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    Wuhan: Some people couldn't wait to leave town. Others just wanted to get outside and feel free again. All of them wore face masks against the virus that had forced them to stay in their homes for more than two months. Image Credit: AP
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    Chinese authorities ended the lockdown of Wuhan on Wednesday, allowing people to move about and leave the city for the first time in 76 days. Image Credit: AP
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    Thousands boarded trains, planes and long-distance buses, finally able to return to their homes and jobs. Image Credit: AP
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    Many had come to visit relatives during the Lunar New Year holiday in late January and were trapped when the coronavirus lockdown was announced with no advance warning. Image Credit: AP
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    The outbreak started in Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million people on the Yangtze River. Image Credit: AP
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    Authorities cut off and shut down the city in a desperate bid to stop the disease from spreading. It still killed more than 2,500 people in Wuhan, by far the highest death toll in China, and grew into a pandemic. Image Credit: AP
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    Once the lockdown was lifted, drivers took to the roads again and people went to parks and public plazas. Image Credit: AP
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    Residents who wanted to enter a building or board a train were still checked to see if they were running a fever, though. The fear has subsided but not gone away. Image Credit: AP
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    Residents eat on the streets of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Image Credit: AP
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    A woman walks her dog on the streets of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Image Credit: AP
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    A restaurant worker prepares vegetables on the streets of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Image Credit: AP
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    Chinese youths record a dance routine on the streets of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Image Credit: AP

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