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A woman walks in a park along Yangtze River in Wuhan on Jan. 19, 2021. Residents of the city of 11 million, which was the first epicenter of COVID-19, have conflicting emotions as they reckon with the aftermath of the virus and their 76-day lockdown. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Wuhan's Lockdown Memories 1 Year Later: Pride, Anger, Deep Pain

Jan. 23 marks the one-year anniversary of the strict lockdown imposed on the first epicenter of COVID-19. Here's what residents have to say about their experience.

Cuban migrants block the Paso del Norte-Santa Fe international bridge between Mexico and the United States, to demand that the Trump administration allow them to wait for their asylum process on U.S. soil, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 29, 2020. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Asylum-Seekers Hope Biden's Pledge To Welcome Immigrants Includes Them

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Alternative for Germany leaders Björn Höcke (right) and Alexander Gauland celebrate their party's election results in Erfurt, Germany, in 2019, when voters in Thuringia elected a new state parliament. The AfD now has 88 members in Germany's federal parliament, more than 12% representation. Jens Meyer/AP hide caption

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Germany Expected To Put Right-Wing AfD Under Surveillance For Violating Constitution

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A woman walks in a park along Yangtze River in Wuhan on Jan. 19, 2021. Residents of the city of 11 million, which was the first epicenter of COVID-19, have conflicting emotions as they reckon with the aftermath of the virus and their 76-day lockdown. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Wuhan's Lockdown Memories 1 Year Later: Pride, Anger, Deep Pain

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Mike Milosh says that Home, his latest album as the leader of Rhye, is a product of managing pandemic-era stress and fear alongside creativity. Emma Marie Jenkinson/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Even In Isolation, Rhye Makes Music For Us To Come Together

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