Wuhan, the former epicentre of novel coronavirus, now seems to have completely gotten over the Covid-19 pandemic. While the world continues to maintain social distancing as a mean to combat the virus, thousands were able to gather for a pool party without any precautionary measures whatsoever in Wuhan.
In a very unconventional 2020 way, Wuhan hosted HOHA Water Electrical Musical Festival over the weekend and images from the event clearly show that it was one of a kind cheerful weekend.
While thousands of people wearing swimsuits crammed into the Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park, others were spotted hanging out at the bar. The massive pool party, completed with a DJ on turntables, had people dancing to the toe in colourful attires.
As per the reports, the visitors were given temperature and security checks on arrival.
In Wuhan, life has gradually gone back to normal after 76- day strict lockdown in early April. In mid-May, the city had recorded six new cases in a residential community and rolled out a quick contact tracing program. And not to much surprise, they clearly succeeded in their technique as the city hasn’t registered any new case since then. They tested more than 6.5 million people in just nine days. That’s a huge number if we compare it to the number of samples tested in India, which is now the third-worst hit country by the pandemic.
However, Sanjaya Senanayake, associate professor in infectious diseases at the Australian National University, cautions that even though most of Wuhan’s citizens have been tested, the risk of transmission is still alive. “The problem is we haven’t eradicated Covid-19, and what that means is that as long as its not eradicated, there’s still the risk of having it introduced, whether from overseas or elsewhere,” he told the BBC.
Wuhan’s lockdown began to ease in March and was officially lifted on April 8. There have been over 89,400 cases of coronavirus reported in China with 4,703 casualties.
