“I hope that next week they begin to open. You could as a minimum get out of the house”. By day the expectations of the citizens of Wuhan, including the few italians left in the city are fixed on a date: Wednesday, march 11. The authorities have made it clear that could be the fateful moment in which to begin to lighten the quarantine tight on the Hubei and its capital, the first outbreak of the coronavirus. Is the past a very long month and a half from when this part of China has been isolated from the rest of the Country, forbidden to enter or leave. For several weeks, then 50 million people cannot even go out from their residential complexes, “at the most a walk in the yard,” says an Italian.
Now, however, the epidemic is slowing down here too, as already happened in the rest of China: of the 126 cases yesterday, all in Wuhan and no one in the province, there are few for those at the height of the emergency there is thousands. “If the situation improves, the competent authorities will make adjustments, that day is not far away,” confirmed a spokesperson for the government, adding also a little bit of poetry. “The buds of the cherry are in full bloom. The winter is past and spring has come”.
China is winning the “war of the people” against the coronavirus, the propaganda of the commander-in-chief Xi Jinping doesn’t lose the chance to underline it, to the citizens and to the rest of the world. Most of the provinces has lowered the alarm level, the companies put in motion, although with difficulty, some areas, less affected, even have planned the reopening of the schools. Free from the “daemon” of the virus also the martyr city of Wuhan, with its 2 thousand and 300 deaths, would be the final triumph. Yet in this area that the more red you can not cameras is completely forbidden to hasten the time. The government has closed down two of the hospitals, temporary built at the height of the emergency, but in the other doctors and nurses continue to fight for the lives of 20 thousand patients, of which over 5 thousand in serious conditions. Only when you will get to zero new infections, in the best of cases, to the end of the month, the authorities will be able to think of to remove the roadblocks and reopen stations and airports. Re-open the road to infection, pose a risk to the rest of China for too much of a hurry it would be unforgivable after so many costly sacrifices.
The normal to Wuhan is still a mirage far away. But if only a few signal next week, the reopening of an office, the opportunity to walk up to the supermarket, for brilliantly illuminating a light at the end of the tunnel. In these three months the people of Hubei have experienced the anxiety of a mysterious illness, the despair of the epidemic out of control, the tragedy of hospitals to collapse and entire families killed by the virus, the solidarity of the volunteers who distributed house-to-house, the grocery, the pride of those who will be meeting in the evening, to cry out in chorus from the windows, and jia you, “hold on”, “let’s get inside.”
Now can see the beginning of the end: “I Am so tired, all I do is study the computer and sleep,” says the 18-year-old Qiuyan, who lives in a lower center of Hubei. As his peers that this year they have to face the gaokao, the infamous test of access to the university, does not see the time that the school reopens. “The situation is improving, some areas of the province, with zero cases of infection are ready”. He read of the disaster in Italy, knows what it means, there is already past: “I’m sorry, you have to follow the preventive measures,” he says. But don’t worry, everything will be resolved. Jia you, hold on”.
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