It looked like a ghost town and its inhabitants were panicked: Wuhan, recovered from the trauma of the Covid-19, marked January 23, 2021, the first anniversary of its confinement, while the coronavirus is now ravaging the rest of the globe.
The huge metropolis in central China was at the end of 2019 the first city in the world to be hit by what was then a mysterious killer virus.
And on January 23, 2020, when the official toll showed 17 dead, the Communist power ordered the city to be placed under a bell to stop the epidemic.
In Wuhan, the decision, announced in the middle of the night, took 11 million inhabitants by surprise.
Stations and airports closed, roads blocked, transport stopped and businesses locked ... images that are now familiar to us, gave the world the signal that a serious epidemic was threatening.
A year later, the pandemic killed more than two million people around the world.
Director:
Olivier JUSZCZAK
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