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Phillip And Holly Go Live To Wuhan | This Morning

May 04, 2020
It's a difficult time for all of us in the UK right now, but we can bring you good news from Wuhan in China, where the virus started long after 76 days of lockdown. Residents are now allowed to leave their homes and move around the city. ITV News correspondent Debbie Edward joins us now from Wuhan and hello, hello Debbie, anything to join us, can you tell us what's started happening today? Well, people, for the first time in the '70s and '60s, were allowed to leave Wuhan. the train station behind me is open, the airport is open and the city border is open and since midnight people crossed the border in their cars and I leave the train station, obviously eager to get to home.
phillip and holly go live to wuhan this morning
Of them have been displaced since the lockdown began on January 23, but unfortunately not everyone can move freely in Wuhan, there are still several communities where there have been new cases in recent days and people who are still restricted to only being allowed out. from your house two hours a day, so it's not an opening of the floodgates here, but it's certainly a positive movement here today and Debbie, obviously, you're still wearing a mask there and the people behind you are walking around with masks on too. protect themselves is the concern that

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virus could actually come back or that there is still a potential case of reinfection with the virus.
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Both of those things, really yes, there is nervousness here about the possibility of a second wave and the possibility of more infections as people move around again and there are virus cases, of course there is still a presence here in the city, but it must be warn teachers. The Wuhan government today issued a reminder that those going out must wear a mask in public. and it's really a sign of respect towards others and also a sense of calm that it provides here in Wuhan and in fact we've been using them on the streets of Beijing, they don't seem to be socially distancing behind you.
phillip and holly go live to wuhan this morning
Not really, yeah, and we just got tested back in Beijing and we were in a hospital and there was no social distancing and that made us quite nervous and I think maybe the use of the mast. and checking temperatures and checking health all the time, which maybe makes people feel calmer about it and it's not something that's really been implemented here, other than in the stores where those markers are found that we now see in the UK tries to keep people at least one or two meters away, so Tibby, what about these exotic wildlife markets where we know

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originated in the first place and we have been hearing reports that they have actually reopened?
phillip and holly go live to wuhan this morning
No, that's not correct. I guess the government acted pretty quickly to shut them down, but only temporarily. They have a law in place that is not permanent, but I think the government will feel pressure now to make it a permanent movement. the wildlife market where this epidemic apparently started and it is certainly closed and will remain that way at least for the foreseeable future, if not forever, you have spent a lot of time there, you know the culture, you know the traditions, it is very difficult to change the course of an entire country when it comes to Chinese medicine when it comes to those long-standing traditions, but I think the world is going to start saying, you know you have to change because look what that did to us, do you think that The population would be open to the permanent closure of these exotic markets.
I think they will. Yes. I think people have seen how the world has reacted to that and there has been some anger about that. Yes, but I think people here really want to go further. epidemic and certainly people in Wuhan today are leaving their homes and there is still a lot of anger about what was allowed to happen here, about the lockdown that did not come quickly enough, that the advice that was given to them was not fast enough and like The result is losing friends and family and getting infected, so I think part of that will put pressure on the government to act and maybe ban these markets and forever, thank you.
Thank you for joining us. We can also go

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now to Connor Reed who

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s in Wuhan and was the first British person to sign Co bid 19 at the end of last year, so Connor, thanks for joining us, you've been locked up since the murder. In January you were only allowed to leave the apartment to shop. You have experienced your first outing. Imagine Those will be pretty tentative steps, right? But we are also very happy to go out because it has been a lot of time inside and we just go out for a walk for the sake of walking without having a real destination.
It's been refreshing, you were reportedly the first Brit to set up a Cove contract at 19, a schoolteacher got fired for speaking out and then obviously the wheels fell off the world and we all discovered, you know, we were all struggling for you, obviously, from very early on. In lockdown, away from everyone, being separated, how did you manage to keep your head saying? Well, that's what when you come to a country like this you expect to be alone, you're the foreigner in the country and that's why I haven't done it. I found that part very difficult, however, being without my family and stuff has been a challenge and how do you filter the time well?
I've done everything you can think of. I have played Monopoly. I have made drawings. I'm learning Russian and. One day I kept my arm up as long as possible just because it was something to do during the day. Yes, it's quite a challenge to stay stimulated for 70 days and are you also worried about being there now that everyone is venturing out? for the first time, are you worried that it could come back? That people could get it again. You're worried that no, no, everyone outside has a special QR code and that means they're healthy if they did.
If they didn't have the QR code they wouldn't be allowed to leave, so we know that everyone in the city is healthy and the only reported cases of foreigners entering the city, everyone in the city natively is healthy now that they have eradicated the virus. We have seen photographs and been surprised and disappointed by the number of people who have actually broken the lockdown here and taken trips that were unnecessary, whether they agree or disagree with it, such as sunbathing in parks and beaches and That kind of thing, do you think the Chinese population's compliance has helped slow the spread?
The Chinese people absolutely love their government. If the government asked them to jump, they would ask them how high and therefore when something like this happens. they come together as a people and tackle it together and people really don't want to be the odd one out when others aren't, so I think in a society like this it's more effective and could be handled much better than the United Kingdom Connor um, you're out now, you've been in isolation for 76 days, you're leaving now, a lot of people here will eventually feel the same kind of moment when you venture out.
And since you say walking somewhere without having a destination in mind, do you think it will be strange to reintegrate into normal life? Yeah, so on the social site I live alone, so my social skills are probably at their lowest and I haven't really been talking to anyone at all. I think something like this is going to affect a society for a longer period of time. It's not going to be like that if you snap your fingers. The quarantine is over. Back to normal. It will take. It will be a learning process, at the moment businesses and families are picking up the pieces and trying to recover, so although the quarantine is over, the virus is gone, this is now the recovery stage where people are becoming to unite, okay, Connie, stay.
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