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Wuhan Resident Says City Now Safest in World Amid Pandemic

© AP Photo / Ng Han GuanResidents wearing masks to help curb the spread the coronavirus walk along a retail street in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Released from their apartments after a 2 1/2-month quarantine, residents of the city where the coronavirus pandemic began are cautiously returning to shopping and strolling in the street but say they still go out little and keep children home while they wait for schools to reopen
Residents wearing masks to help curb the spread the coronavirus walk along a retail street in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Released from their apartments after a 2 1/2-month quarantine, residents of the city where the coronavirus pandemic began are cautiously returning to shopping and strolling in the street but say they still go out little and keep children home while they wait for schools to reopen - Sputnik International
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WUHAN (Sputnik) - The Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei province, the suspected origin of the coronavirus outbreak, has likely become the safest city in the world amid the pandemic, a local resident believes.
"I think that Wuhan is probably the safest place in the world right now because the monitoring system and the civil defence mobilisation are still on high alert," the Wuhan school employee, who goes by the surname Zhou, said.

Another Wuhan resident, who gave his surname Zhu, said that people needed to take quarantine seriously to stop the virus from spreading. While in quarantine, it is important to have a list of things you have been putting off for a long time to keep yourself busy.

"Things like cooking and physical exercise. You should make yourself do chores, otherwise you are in for quarrels over trivial matters," he said.

There has reportedly been a marked rise in the divorce rate in China since the nationwide lockdown started to ease in March. Zhu said boredom made couples look closer at one another and get disappointed in their marriage.

Wuhan emerged from more than two months of quarantine on Wednesday. The city of 10 million people went into lockdown on January 23 after the disease started spreading outwards, with the authorities cutting outbound transportation and shutting down the airport.

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