Wuhan celebrates the defeat of "Corona ... and the world is mourning over a million victims."

With the death of more than a million people in the world as a result of the Corona virus, Wuhan residents expressed their sadness at the continuing global impact of the epidemic more than nine months after its appearance in this city in central China.

The pride resulting from the city's steadfastness in the face of the tragedy is mixed with grief over the mounting death toll in other places.

Scientist Hu Lingquan, who lives in Wuhan, said: "The number of deaths has reached one million, and if we talk in terms of the total number of the world's population, this number is not large."

"But it is about the lives of people ... and everyone has a family," he told AFP.

On Monday, children were holding their parents' hands as they headed to school during rush hour in a city where life was almost normal.

Wuhan, the city in central China that was the starting point for the virus to the countries of the world, has celebrated its economic recovery by organizing crowded parties in swimming pools and reopening parks and bustling amusement parks.

But those scenes that the residents of Wuhan and its officials boast of have been poorly received in the rest of the world, which is still struggling to control the spread of the virus and its economic repercussions, while voices are calling for China to be held accountable for the causes of the outbreak.

The severity of the virus’s spread has been realized in the city of 11 million after recording 50,340 infections and 3,869 deaths, which is the largest number of infections and deaths in China.

But no new infection has been reported in the city since May.

And townspeople began to be complacent about the epidemic.

Today, a large number of passers-by were seen wearing masks on their chins instead of covering their mouths and noses, as shoppers gathered in commercial areas in Wuhan before the start of the week-long holiday.

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