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Three years on, Covid-19 has finally come full circle in China but tough times lie ahead

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Morning rush hour in Wuhan's Wuchang district on Dec 9.

Morning rush hour in Wuhan's Wuchang district on Dec 9. Chinese authorities this week announced a relaxation of lockdown measures.

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- Living and reporting in “zero-Covid” China over the past three years often felt like living an alternate reality.

When

a “mysterious pneumonia” first surfaced in early 2020

and many started hoarding masks and sanitiser, others elsewhere thought it was simply a country overreacting.

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