It is an image that we should not see anytime soon in France ... More than 11,000 Chinese students in gowns and square toques took part in a giant graduation ceremony in Wuhan, more than a year after the graduation ceremony anti-Covid restrictions in this city at the epicenter of the epidemic.
A sign of the relaxation of Wuhan people, few students wore a mask in the audience during the ceremony organized on Sunday at the Normal School in the city.
Among the students seated in tight rows, more than 2,200 were expected to graduate last year, but the ceremony had been postponed due to the epidemic.
The ceremony was the opportunity to award the diploma to the 2,000 students who could not have had a ceremony last year, due to the Covid-19.
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The quarantine of Wuhan's 11 million residents on January 23, 2020, signaled the severity of the disease, which has since spread across the globe.
After 76 days of very strict confinement, the city had gradually returned to a normal rhythm from April 2020, like the whole of China, where the contagion was practically stopped.
Most of the students did not wear masks.
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According to official figures, China has recorded just over 90,000 cases of Covid, including 4,636 fatalities since the start of 2020, most of them in Wuhan.
If the contagion was stopped quickly, outbreaks appear sporadically, including in recent weeks in the giant metropolis of Canton (south), where two cases were reported on Tuesday.