Back in Bloom
Hongshan Gymnasium in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province, has taken on multiple roles since last year. It served as a temporary hospital when the city was in the throes of COVID-19. It hosted job fairs when the lockdown was lifted and the city started to reopen. It is also a gymnasium, as it should be, hosting athletic events.
On April 8, over 400 people gathered at the gymnasium for an activity marking the 300-day countdown to the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. It also marks the one year anniversary of the city’s lockdown being lifted.
It’s hard to even spot the slightest hint indicating the gymnasium served as a temporary hospital only a year ago when Wuhan was thrust into the turmoil caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. As the first city to report novel coronavirus cases, Wuhan went through a 76-day lockdown, the first such action China had ever
