The Chinese City Of Wuhan Has Now Been Under Lock-Down For One Month

Wuhan has been in lockdown for a month to try to cope with the coronavirus epidemic. Photo: TNS

ABC News Online: Coronavirus COVID-19's Wuhan lockdown, a month on

Almost 60 million people have been placed under an unprecedented lockdown in China's Hubei province since the novel coronavirus broke through its capital city, Wuhan. A month on, here's a look at what life in the usually bustling transport hub has been like.

It's a city more populous than London or New York, and in recent months, it has rivalled the two metropoles for global attention — albeit for the wrong reasons.

This city is Wuhan — the Chinese provincial capital of Hubei — which has recently come to be known as the epicentre of an outbreak of a new coronavirus, known as COVID-19.

The virus is a sibling to the common cold, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), but so far has killed more than SARS and MERS combined.

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Update: Locked in the land of loss and regretting: one month in China under coronavirus siege (SCMP)

WNU Editor: Most people are not working. Basic supplies have to be short for many right now. And then there is the fear of the disease, and hearing reports like the one below:

50-60 K people in hospitals in #Wuhan, out of 18 cremators at a crematorium, 3 were burned out due to overuse. Other 15 in operation 24/7. Many families died out.
希望之声：武汉居民惊曝医院住5、6万人 18个火化炉烧坏3个 - https://t.co/Of7fzmiDLM
— 曾錚 Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferatntd) February 23, 2020