Nothing to see: Covid-19 origins off-limits as China's Wuhan touts recovery

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The Huanan seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, believed by many to be the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, is sealed behind a blue perimeter fence. A large team of security staff chases away anyone who lingers.

“We are just doing our job,” said a guard in black who ordered a Reuters reporter to delete footage recorded near the market's main gates. He identified himself as a worker from the city government's epidemic prevention and control team.

Foreign journalists were invited on an official tour to report on Wuhan's efforts to rebuild its economy after the months-long trauma of Covid-19. The official message: the “heroic city” is back to normal and back in business, its schools and tourist sites reopened and its enterprises running at full capacity.

“No other place is as safe as this,” said Lin Songtian, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, a state-backed group that helped organise the tour. The location of more than 80% of the country's Covid-19 deaths, the central Chinese city on the banks of the Yangtze river has reported no cases of local transmission since April, and most of the stringent controls imposed during a two-month lockdown have been relaxed.

 

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