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Footage of the music festival, celebrated at the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park on July 11, showed a packed out swimming pool where revellers stood shoulder-to-shoulder with no room for social distancing. English-language China Daily newspaper covered the story, explaining that the images depicted life going back to normal after the devastating pandemic. An article in the Global Times, a tabloid published by the ruling Communist Party’s People’s Daily, claimed that Wuhan residents said the event showed the city’s recovery from the health crisis. Wuhan, once the epicentre of the pandemic, introduced a strict lockdown at the beginning of the...
