A City Traumatized: Lockdown Easing, Wuhan Residents Fret Over Future

A City Traumatized: Lockdown Easing, Wuhan Residents Fret Over Future
People wearing protective suits is seen at a street market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on April 6, 2020. Aly Song/Reuters
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WUHAN, China—Li Xiaoli has been hard at work in recent days at the car dealership she owns in Wuhan, making sure she has enough sanitizer and protective gear for the company’s long-awaited reopening.

The 49-year-old’s home city will on April 8 finally start to lift a lockdown that has trapped millions for more than two months after the Chinese industrial powerhouse became the epicenter of a global CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.