Pictures show life almost back to normal in the city where the pandemic began

Pictures of bustling night markets in Wuhan show life in the Chinese city almost back to normal.

Wuhan, the original epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic when it started at the end of 2019, saw a partial lifting of its almost three-month lockdown at the beginning of April.

After a small cluster of new infections in the area at the beginning of May and a lot of initial caution, residents now seem to be adjusting to the ‘new normal’ life in the Chinese city hit hardest by the disease.

It comes after the city declared a ’10-day battle’ and conducted more than 6.5 million Covid-19 tests in 10 days.

State media reported more than 80% of the city’s 11 million residents were tested for the virus.

The city’s health commission, in a post on its website, asked anyone who has not been tested to come forward by the end of Tuesday.

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No new Covid-19 cases have been reported since the campaign started, though around 200 people with no symptoms tested positive.

More than three million people had been tested prior to the campaign, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The campaign was launched after a cluster of six cases was discovered in one residential compound at the beginning of May.

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