Images from
the Huangshan also known as Yellow Mountains in Anhui province showed thousands
of people jampacked together with many of them wearing face masks, as they
struggle to experience outdoors after months of strict lock-down measures.
Thousands of
Chinese people stormed popular tourist sites and major cities across China over
the three-day Qing Ming Festival holiday, despite warnings from health
officials that the Coronavirus pandemic isn’t over yet.
The photos
were taken on Saturday, April 4..
According to
the state media Global Times, people rushed to get into the popular tourist spot,
that at 7.48 a.m., authorities issued a notice declaring that the park had
reached its 20,000 people daily capacity, and would not be accepting any more
visitors.
In Shanghai,
the famous Bund waterfront was also crowded with shoppers and tourists. While
at the capital Beijing, locals flocked to the city’s parks and open spaces.
The apparent
normality comes three months after Coronavirus broke out from Wuhan city in
China, infecting more than a million people around the world.
China is said
to have defeated the disease after they claimed the rate of the infection has
slowed significantly.
On Monday,
China reported just 39 new cases, all but one of which were imported. To date,
China has recorded 82,641 cases with 3,335 deaths from the disease.
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