What After Lockdown Gets Lifted? Will There be Another Phase? This is What Wuhan Has Done

 The local government of Wuhan, in a notice, asked the city's residential communities to continue closed-off management of residents' movements ensuring that their temperatures are checked and they wear masks.

Updated: April 3, 2020 4:14 PM IST

By India.com News Desk | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh

What After Lockdown Gets Lifted? Will There be Another Phase? This is What Wuhan Has Done

New Delhi: The 21-day nationwide lockdown is scheduled to come to an end on April 14. It’s not yet decided whether the lockdown will be extended or not. At present, the question that is on top of everyone’s mind is what’s next. Will there be lockdowns in certain hotspots? Will there be restricted movement of public transport?

Here is what Wuhan, the first epicentre of the novel coronavirus, did.

After nine weeks, the lockdown has been relaxed in Wuhan. But it again brought back the lockdown unofficially by asking its residents to stay at home and avoid non-essential outings. Why? There are fears of a possible rebound of the disease due to a steady rise in the asymptomatic cases.

Asymptomatic coronavirus cases are those who test positive for the virus but do not show any symptom and have the potential to cause sporadic clusters of infections.

China on March 25 downgraded the risk level of the coronavirus in its epicentre Wuhan from high to medium and resumed bus services within the city for the first time since the three-month lockdown.

Currently, there are 1,075 asymptomatic patients under medical observation in the Chinese mainland.

According to official media reports, China also plans to test the over 11 million population of Wuhan as asymptomatic cases are being reported for the first time by Chinese officials since Wednesday, amidst international criticism casting doubts over China’s official figures of the coronavirus.

Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak in China, on Friday asked its residents to stay at home and avoid nonessential outings as the city guards against a rebound in the outbreak, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The local government of Wuhan, in a notice, asked the city’s residential communities to continue closed-off management of residents’ movements ensuring that their temperatures are checked and they wear masks, Xinhua news agency reported.

The notice warned against slackening vigilance amid the increased flow of people and an influx of non-locals. Wuhan was sealed off since January 23. It is expected to lift outbound travel restrictions on April 8.

The city’s public transportation has partly resumed services, and there are visibly more pedestrians and vehicles on the roads.

(With PTI Inputs)

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