![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/how-covid-ground-zero-wuhan-went-from-freedom-to-worlds-strictest-lockdown/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/KH-COMP-COVID-2020.jpg&description=WITH packed dancefloors and pool parties - while the world suffered from soaring Covid caseloads, China was unlocking and boasting they had beaten the virus. Few places were more championed than Wuhan - the virus' "ground zero" from which apocalyptic footage of heaving hospitals and people collapsing in the street emerged in early 2020. This photo taken on August 15, 2020, shows people watching a performance as they cool off in a swimming pool in WuhanCredit: AFP Wuhan was seen as an example of how China had beaten the virusCredit: AFP Social distancing, what social distancing?Credit: Reuters People crammed together to celebrate - but now China believes in 'Covid Zero'Credit: AFP Months later while Britain and the rest of the world were still dealing with the horror impacts of the virus - China was showing off just how well it had beaten the virus. Famous photos showed people living life as if there was no deadly virus sweeping the world - with the city claiming they had no new local cases. Chinese clubbers were seen packing out a disco just as the second wave began to crash into the UK ahead of the extremely grim winter two years ago. And yet now - while the UK lives an entirely normal post-pandemic existence, Wuhan has once again been plunged back into lockdown along with more than a 200million others across 31 cities in China. China pulled the trigger on another lockdown after just a handful of new cases - between just 20 and 25 a day with 240 over the last two weeks. But that was enough to tip the scales as 800,000 people in one district were ordered to stay home until at least October 30. And this isn't the first time - with the city also being placed into lockdown in July amid repeated snap lockdowns across China. Cops wearing hazmat suits and wielding machine guns have been brutally enforcing some of the strictest rules in the world. Quarantine camps, food shortages. cops seizing people's homes, tags on Covid patients, and drones policing the streets have all){kind=link}
WITH packed dancefloors and pool parties – while the world suffered from soaring Covid caseloads, China was unlocking and boasting they had beaten the virus.
Few places were more championed than Wuhan – the virus’ “ground zero” from which apocalyptic footage of heaving hospitals and people collapsing in the street emerged in early 2020.
Months later while Britain and the rest of the world were still dealing with the horror impacts of the virus – China was showing off just how well it had beaten the virus.
Famous photos showed people living life as if there was no deadly virus sweeping the world – with the city claiming they had no new local cases.
Chinese clubbers were seen packing out a disco just as the second wave began to crash into the UK ahead of the extremely grim winter two years ago.