According to this Wall Street Journal article from April 8th, the Chinese government has elected to relax some of the restrictions placed on the people of Wuhan. The epicenter of the Covid-19 virus has been on total lockdown for 11 weeks and, “At the drop of midnight Wednesday morning, Chinese authorities began allowing people who can prove they are healthy to enter and leave Wuhan, and relaxed restrictions on many local businesses, in an effort to resuscitate a local economy devastated by the disease.” So, the Chinese government is not simply letting things return completely back to normal, but some of the restrictions they had placed on the people of Wuhan have begun to be relaxed. However, before we get too excited that the epicenter may be coming to an end, that is certainly not entirely true. As the quote suggested, these relaxing restrictions definitely do not apply to everyone, and it may simply be to restore some of the economy in the area, not because they believe the area is in better shape. “Millions of others in Wuhan, however, remained under effective lockdown in their homes after the city government said residential restrictions would remain in place—in part because of the recent discovery of dozens of asymptomatic cases in the city.”. So, yes, some of the restrictions on the people of Wuhan are being lifted, but those lifted restrictions may simply be a ploy to get the world’s attention and restore some of the area’s economy. The great majority of the city are still on lockdown and the end does not quite seem to be in sight, especially with the discovery of all of the new asymptomatic cases in the area, “The city has announced only three confirmed cases since March 18—the first day it reported none—but has revealed 194 new asymptomatic cases since it began reporting those numbers on April 1, raising fears of a second wave of infections in the city.”. The world may be incredibly far from the end of this pandemic.
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