A city traumatized: Lockdown easing, Wuhan residents fret over future


  • World
  • Tuesday, 07 Apr 2020

A resident wearing a face mask walks past statue symbolising Xinhai Revolution, a revolution that toppled China's last emperor in 1911, in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

WUHAN, China (Reuters) - Li Xiaoli has been hard at work in recent days at the car dealership she owns in Wuhan, making sure she has enough sanitizer and protective gear for the company's long-awaited reopening.

The 49-year-old's home city will on Wednesday finally start to lift a lockdown that has trapped millions for more than two months after the Chinese industrial powerhouse became the epicentre of a global coronavirus pandemic.

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