While in France, the government is still working on a strategy of deconfining the population, it is already at work in China where television broadcast live, at midnight, the reopening of the borders of Wuhan. For the 11 million inhabitants, it is the end of 76 days locked up in their homes and the sign that the coronavirus epidemic is well under control even if this operation is done in a very gradual way.
60,000 people are expected to leave the city
Everyone had to be in front of their post to follow the count announcing the possibility of leaving the city, by train, plane or car. Just this Wednesday, more than 60,000 people planned to use one of these means of transport.
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And if the majority will stay in Wuhan, it will be with a new feeling of freedom, as, as told by a resident who had not been out of his apartment for two months. "It is so moving to see people going out again. Before the epidemic, there were always people outside. They liked to walk in the parks and suddenly everything became silent," he says, recalling those long days of loneliness: "I cried all the time when I was watching TV or whatever, I cried".
A city by city deconfinement
But this release is done under conditions. Residents must, in fact, be provided with a QR code, an electronic code acting as a digital passport proving that they are not sick and that they have not been in contact with a sick person.
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They must also present a health certificate as well as a work certificate to justify their exit. Deconfinement is therefore very gradual. Especially since these people will be placed in quarantine again if they want to go to another city. This is the principle of this deconfinement city by city, province by province.