The city of 11 million people is emerging from a 2-month lockdown
View of Wuhan city from the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on April 10, 2020. Picture: HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP
Feng Jing, who runs a group of community workers looking after the Tanhualin neighbourhood in Wuhan, said during a government-run tour for journalists on Friday that they would continue to carry out extensive checks on residents. China reported a fall in new coronavirus cases on Friday after leaders promised to accelerate the country's economic recovery, boost domestic demand and put more people back to work.
It said China now needed to"actively create favourable conditions" to restore normality in the economy, though it warned there was still a risk of a rebound in cases. The virus, which first broke out in Wuhan in late 2019, has since spread around the world infecting more than 1.4 million people, killing more than 87,700.
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