Pride and caution in Wuhan on COVID-19 lockdown anniversary


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WUHAN, China: Exactly one year after it thrust the word "lockdown" into the global conversation, Wuhan passes the anniversary on Saturday (Jan 23) with a mix of pride at recovering from the coronavirus and caution over a possible relapse. A year ago on Saturday, Wuhan shocked the world by ordering 11 million anxious citizens be confined at home, beginning a traumatic 76-day lockdown that underscored the growing threat of a then-mysterious pathogen emanating from the city. One by one, adjacent metropolises in hard-hit Hubei province quickly followed suit, as did cities and entire countries worldwide as COVID-19 went global. But...