As the coronavirus claimed its millionth life, people in Wuhan expressed sadness today at the continuing global impact of the pandemic - more than nine months after it emerged in the central Chinese city.
Pride at the city's resilience in the face of the calamity is tinged with sadness at the mounting death toll elsewhere. "One million people dead, maybe relatively speaking in terms of the total global population it's not a lot," said Hu Lingquan, a scientist and Wuhan resident. "But these are actually all real people's lives," he told AFP. "Every person has a family." On Monday children clasped their parents' hands as they navigated their way to school through rush-hour traffic in the nearly back-to-normal city.