Wet markets in China's Wuhan reopens to people after Covid-19

A resident wearing a face mask buys food from a grocery stall through a small window opened on barriers which have been built to separate residential buildings from a street in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province on Sunday (April 12). - Reuters

WUHAN: Fish and vegetable merchants are reopening stalls at wet markets in China's central city of Wuhan as it lifts a months-long lockdown against the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, but their future may be a struggle with customers dwindling as the virus stigma persists.

The virus, which has infected 1.6 million people and killed 106,000 in 214 countries, is believed to have originated late last year among wild animals on sale in a seafood market in Wuhan that has been closed and boarded up since January.