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April 9, 2020

Wuhan opens, sparking hope despite rising global deaths and economic pain

WUHAN, China: Thousands streamed out of the Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday after a lockdown on the birthplace of the coronavirus was lifted, offering a ray of hope even as Europe and the United States faced rising deaths and crippling economic pain.As Wuhan reawakens, Western countries remain in the throes of a crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 80,000 people worldwide and forced around half of humanity into some form of lockdown.The hardest-hit countries, among them Italy,...