By Vanessa Castillo, Staff Reporter
The spread of the coronavirus first started in December in Wuhan, China. The virus started spreading rapidly throughout China and soon enough, there were cases spreading globally. The virus could not be contained and China became the first country to go under lockdown at the end of January, with only food and medicine shops open.
More than two months later, China ended lockdown as they saw their numbers drop significantly only because they took the right precautions to try and control the virus. For example, going door to door for health checks, those who were showing even mild symptoms were isolated for two weeks, and lockdown restrictions were heavily enforced. Adding to that were protocols such as sanitation workers spraying disinfectants with hoses and trucks throughout the streets.
“The city that has reopened after more than 10 weeks is a profoundly damaged one,” New York Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Vivian Wang said. “A place whose recovery will be watched worldwide for lessons on how populations move past pain and calamity of such staggering magnitude.”
Although the Chinese are still currently taking precautions and life has not gone back to “normal,” over 78,000 people have recovered and there haven't been many new cases. Many people have gone back to work, most businesses have opened, and schools have even started opening where the outbreak first started, still following social distancing procedures and wearing face masks. Though in fear of a second wave, China is taking measures to ensure there is enough testing for their millions of residents.
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