No traffic jams, no jostling on the journey back to Wuhan
WUHAN, CHINA - By the time G4815 pulled out of Beijing West Station on Tuesday afternoon , I had been asked three times about when I had entered Beijing , whether I completed quarantine , and to show my passport .
And 76 days after officials ordered a lockdown to contain the virus, it was finally lifted at midnight on April 8. Walking through the station - the busiest railway station in the capital where I have never boarded a train without jostling - it was mostly empty, with everyone wearing a mask and keeping their distance.
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