New Year's Eve in China prompted an outpouring of reflection online, some of it critical, about the strict zero-COVID policy
, with Britain and France the latest countries to impose curbs on travellers from China.
On Saturday, people in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the pandemic, expressed hope the new year would bring better fortune. "Kids don't have such good self discipline. And then for us adults sometimes because of the epidemic controls we have been locked up at home. It's definitely had an impact."
"What a perverse world, you can only sing the praises of the fake but you cannot show real life," one user wrote, attaching a screenshot of a blank page that is displayed when searching for the hashtags. At the central hospital of Wuhan, where former COVID whistleblower Li Wenliang worked and later died of the virus in early 2020, patient numbers were down on Saturday compared with the rush of the past few weeks, a hazmat-suit wearing worker outside the hospital's fever clinic told Reuters.A pharmacist whose store is next to the hospital said most people in the city had now been infected and recovered.
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