After 76 days, the lockdown on Wuhan to contain the spread of the coronavirus was finally lifted at midnight on April 8. China correspondent Elizabeth Law, who is based in Beijing, returns to the city to see how things have changed.
Throughout the outbreak, trains had been stopping in the city – it was just that short of getting on an evacuation flight; there was no way to leave once you had entered the city.
When collecting my pre-booked ticket, when entering the railway station, and finally on the train, I was asked about when I'd entered the country and whether I had completed quarantine: A member of staff even came to take my temperature. A woman in her 20s who did not want to give her name said she had returned from Britain through Germany.
Which was when things started getting interesting. About a dozen people disembarked, but me and two others with foreign passports were given special attention.
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