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The Intelligence from The Economist

Movement at the epicentre: Wuhan’s lockdown lifts

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

Global News, Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

People are spilling from the Chinese metropolis where the global outbreak took hold. But controls actually remain tight, and authorities’ attempts to spin pandemic into propaganda are not quite working. Mozambique’s rising violence threatens what could be Africa’s largest-ever energy project, in a region that has until now escaped widespread jihadism. And “geomythologists” may have uncovered humans’ oldest tale yet. 

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0:50.0

Southern Africa has mostly been spared the jihadist violence seen elsewhere on the continent.

0:55.0

In Mozambique, that is changing. Attacks are ramping up just as a huge natural gas project promises to change the country's fortunes.

1:05.0

And some of humanity's oldest stories were conjured to explain geological features with god-like figures shaping mountains, volcanoes and lakes.

1:15.0

Now scientists sibling a landscape to another story and uncovered the oldest myth yet.

1:26.0

First up, though.

1:34.0

The news that broke while China slept on January 23rd was astonishing.

1:39.0

The Chinese government had quarantined an entire city at the center of a mysterious new viral outbreak.

1:45.0

Normally traffic jammed highway in the city of Wuhan, China.

1:49.0

Two cities at the epicent to revenue coronavirus outbreak on lockdown on Thursday.

1:55.0

As health and city of Wuhan and nearby towns lockdown no trains, flights or mass transit.

2:03.0

As of today, lockdown restrictions have been lifted. Healthy residents and visitors are at last free to leave the city.

2:10.0

Even as much of the rest of the world now looks the way Wuhan did during the past 10 weeks.

2:16.0

We saw extraordinary scenes as the clock struck midnight early this morning.

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