‘More Painful than Death’: A Year on from Coronavirus Lockdown Chaos in Wuhan

When Yue Zhongyi heard Wuhan was about to go into lockdown last year, he wanted to leave town.
But it was already too late, so the 62-year-old retiree rushed to the supermarket instead and stocked up on huge bags of rice, 15kg of noodles, and bottled water.
The entire city of 11 million people was sealed off the next morning, on January 23, as health authorities imposed aggressive measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. Read More…