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Photos: Life in Wuhan after COVID-19 lockdown

Slide 1 of 11: A man wearing a face mask exercises at a riverside park by the Yangtze River in Wuhan of Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, March 26, 2020.

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