Car traffic jams, sidewalks full of people, crowded parks and public transport: this is how Wuhan, the Chinese city of 11 million inhabitants, appears today, on the first anniversary of the start of the lockdown to counter the spread of Covid-19.
In the meantime, the envoys of the World Health Organization (WHO) are still confined for quarantine in a hotel in the city before they can begin the meetings planned for the mission that will have to ascertain the circumstances of the appearance of the disease, which emerged for the first time precisely in capital of the province of Hubei.
But the United Nations agency itself points out that it is still early to confirm whether or not the virus started from here.
"All the hypotheses remain on the table," WHO emergency director Michael Ryan said at a press conference in Geneva.
"It is definitely too early - he added - to reach a conclusion on where exactly the virus started, inside or outside China".
While Wuhan residents have practically returned to normal life, the rest of the world is grappling with a pandemic whose end is not in sight.
And Hong Kong launches its first lockdown with the local government ordering thousands of inhabitants not to leave their homes.