{"id":360,"date":"2017-07-25T02:50:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T02:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mvpthemes.com\/zoxnews\/?p=360"},"modified":"2020-12-11T22:51:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T22:51:15","slug":"one-year-on-wuhan-market-at-epicentre-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"One Year On, Wuhan Market At Epicentre Of Coronavirus Outbreak Remains Barricaded And Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For over six years, 38-year-old\u00a0Wuhan\u00a0restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way &#8211; with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale\u00a0Market, just ten minutes walk from his house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d send the kids to school, have breakfast and then walk over to the\u00a0market. It was very convenient,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>That changed on Dec. 31, 2019, after four cases of a mystery pneumonia were linked to the\u00a0market\u00a0and it was shuttered overnight. By the end of the month, the city had begun a gruelling 76-day lockdown that came with just hours notice and barred people from leaving their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"One Year On, Wuhan Market At Epicentre Of Virus Outbreak Remains Barricaded And Empty\" src=\"https:\/\/im.indiatimes.in\/content\/2020\/Dec\/1_5fd3577edefa4.jpg?w=725&amp;h=543\" alt=\"One Year On, Wuhan Market At Epicentre Of Virus Outbreak Remains Barricaded And Empty\" data-width=\"725\" data-height=\"543\" data-id=\"2048942\" \/><span class=\"source_link picCaption\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Almost a year since the outbreak began, COVID-19 has claimed more than 1.5 million lives, and the\u00a0Wuhan\u00a0wet\u00a0market\u00a0where it was initially detected stands empty even as the city around it has come back to life.<\/p>\n<div id=\"block-529500-3\">\n<div class=\"article-between-wrap\">It&#8217;s become a symbol of the fierce political and scientific battle raging around the origin of the virus with Beijing continuing to spar with the United States and other countries, accusing them of bias.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>WHO experts yet to visit Wuhan<\/h3>\n<p>A team of World Health Organization experts has yet to visit Wuhan, let alone the market. Health authorities in China and abroad have warned that origin tracing efforts could take years and yield inconclusive results.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Wuhan, where the stigma of being the first coronavirus epicentre hangs heavy, over a dozen residents and business owners told Reuters they don&#8217;t believe the virus began in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,208],"tags":[209,212],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle","tag-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}