Wuhan Lockdown Started A Year Ago: Residents Look Back With Pride, Anger, Pain : Goats and Soda - NPR

Residents of the city of 11 million, which was the first epicenter of COVID-19, have conflicting emotions as they reckon with the aftermath of the virus and their 76-day lockdown.

Residents of the city of 11 million, which was the first epicenter of COVID-19, have conflicting emotions as they reckon with the aftermath of the virus and their 76-day lockdown.

A year ago, on January 23, 2020, China imposed an absolute lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

25, 2020, in Wuhan: Health workers in protective garb walk next to patients awaiting medical attention at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital.

The legacy of the lockdown has splintered Wuhan's residents, who have conflicting memories of those 76 days.

Post lockdown scenes from Wuhan: On Jan.

For thousands of residents, the physical and emotional marks of lockdown remain.

Some 3,000 died of the virus in China, and more than three fourths of those who contracted coronavirus in Wuhan still experience residual symptoms, according to a recent study published in the Lancet.

"The people who did not experience tragedy, they have forgotten [the lockdown] already.

"The people who did not experience tragedy, they have forgotten [the lockdown] already.

"The people who did not experience tragedy, they have forgotten [the lockdown] already.

Her 39-year-old son died from the coronavirus in Wuhan last year.

17, 2020, in Wuhan.

Zhang Zhan, a lawyer-turned-blogger, was sentenced to four years in prison last month for "fabricating lies." Until her arrest in May, Zhang walked around the city and uploaded videos to YouTube about the desperation of Wuhan's residents throughout the lockdown?

The 76-day absolute lockdown had begun days earlier.

The 76-day absolute lockdown had begun days earlier.

It was only after watching this Fang Bin's videos that I realized how bad things were!" recalled a volunteer from Wuhan who delivered medical supplies and food during the lockdown.

Many health experts say a Wuhan lockdown should have begun earlier and would have slowed down the virus' spread.

This volunteer says nonetheless, he cannot forgive the cost it placed on the city's residents - a cost he feels other Chinese citizens do not grasp: "The lockdown created a run on medical resources and a sense of panic.

Many people with conditions other than the coronavirus could not get care as a result and died during lockdown.".

Her business was shut down for nearly half a year during and after the lockdown but she applauds the strict lockdown measure: "The virus could not possibly come here again."

A resident of Wuhan prays after burning paper offerings during the Tomb Sweeping festival, also known as Qingming festival, on April 4, 2020, a holiday to honor ancestors

Last year, a China called for a 3-minute silence on this day to mourn patients and medical staff killed by the coronavirus

A resident of Wuhan prays after burning paper offerings during the Tomb Sweeping festival, also known as Qingming festival, on April 4, 2020, a holiday to honor ancestors

Last year, a China called for a 3-minute silence on this day to mourn patients and medical staff killed by the coronavirus