Wuhan, China — Ground Zero For Coronavirus — Gets Back To Work In Preview Of What’s To Come In U.S.

By  Joseph Curl

The first known case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was traced to Wuhan, Hubei, China, on Dec. 1, 2019.

That’s 105 days ago. Since then, the sweep of the virus across China was devastating. In the Hubei province alone, there were 67,798 confirmed cases, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering.

But the virus — which shut down businesses and industries as it spread across China — began to level off in the Hubei province in the past couple of weeks. And while there were 3,099 deaths in Hubei, 55,094 people there recovered from the virus.

Late last week, residents of Hubei province began returning to work as factories and businesses reopened.

“Food processors, manufacturers and other businesses essential for providing daily necessities in Wuhan, the city in the province where the coronavirus emerged in December, can reopen, the Hubei provincial government announced,” The Washington Times reported. “Construction also has gradually resumed on housing and public infrastructure projects in China as the country tries to bring employees back to work while still containing the epidemic.”

In a video that went viral, medical workers in the province are seen removing their medical masks.

“Chinese medical workers who have been fighting the [coronavirus] day and night in Wuhan celebrated the closing of the last temporary hospital in Wuhan,” said a post on Twitter. “The reported [COVID-19] cases went from a surge in February of 15,000 in one day to only 15 this week.”