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After the corona pandemic: Wuhan is learning to celebrate again

2020-12-22T17:31:50.200Z


Photos from Wuhan give hope: almost a year after the outbreak of the corona pandemic, nightlife is recovering. Young people fill the city's clubs and celebrate their new freedom.


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Partying in the nightclub: Wuhan was the original epicenter of Covid-19.

In the central Chinese city, puzzling cases of pneumonia increased in December 2019.

At the beginning of January, Chinese researchers were able to isolate the pathogen from the group of corona viruses.

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Arriving at the nightclub: Almost a year after the pandemic began, Wuhan's nightlife is picking up again.

The city has not reported a new locally transmitted case of the disease since May 10.

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Party!

The city of eleven million was suddenly sealed off from the rest of China overnight on January 23: roadblocks were erected, planes, trains and buses were not allowed to enter the city - this was one of the strictest closures in the world.

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Dance almost without fear of corona: More than 43 million people were stuck during the lockdown.

In Beijing, New Year events at the end of January were canceled.

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Students, musicians, artists and young workers - the backbone of the nightlife scene - tell stories of how they were stuck in their homes for months.

Many took the opportunity to prepare for a time when the city would recover.

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Drive through Wuhan at night: Almost 3900 of the 4634 registered Covid-19 deaths in China occurred in the industrial city.

Less than a year later, the photographer Aly Song captured the nightlife there.

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Night owls play with toy guns in front of a bar: "Some of my new pieces of music will definitely be about the time of the pandemic," said Wang Xinghao, front man of the Wuhan pop-rock band Mad Rat.

He lived in a very small space with his mother for three months.

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Ferry across the Yangtze River: "During the epidemic, Wuhan was really a dead city," Fan Yi Yi said after a Mad Rat show.

“Now people all come out to eat and have fun.

I don't think so many people did that before the epidemic. "

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In Wuhan, celebrations are not restricted to nightclubs: here, people dance in a park - hand in hand, without distance and without masks.

Life returns to normal.

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Drumming group in a park: Wuhan has more inhabitants than New York, London or Paris; important rail and shipping routes meet here.

It is a modern, rich city and lies on the Yangtze.

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A snack vendor sells snacks on the street at night: In Germany, the first infection was discovered in Bavaria at the end of January; a 33-year-old was infected by a colleague who had been in China for work.

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Cuddled in her warm fur, a woman is enjoying her night snack in a covered street food stand.

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A family in a street restaurant: While Wuhan is learning to party again in December 2020, Europe is taking strict measures to protect against the Sars-CoV-2.

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Guests at a birthday party in a pub smear each other with cream: Despite the thriving night scene, business and restaurant owners in Wuhan say it may be some time before the surge in sales makes up for the massive losses during the lockdown.

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Zhang Qiong, 29, wipes the birthday cake off his face.

"After experiencing the first wave of the epidemic in Wuhan and then the liberation, I feel like I'm living a second life," says Zhang, who works in a textile store in Wuhan.

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Leftovers from a street food meal: The message is clear to the guests who are now flooding Wuhan's nightly hotspots.

"I just want to enjoy this time, because in life you never know when it will be over," Zhang said in the beer hall.

"Make every happy day special."

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Source: spiegel

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