WUHAN, China: "It's definitely not as intimate," sighs a woman dressed in a raincoat, mask, gloves and visor after speaking to a friend over one of the imposing barricades that have sprung up all over Wuhan.
The Chinese city, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, is very slowly re-emerging from more than two months of demoralising lockdown.
Advertisement Advertisement But rows of plastic yellow or blue barriers still run along streets throughout the city of 11 million people, just one