This week, people in Wuhan are going back to work, businesses and shops are reopening, and cars and pedestrians are back on the once-deserted streets, but for many people like Zhang Hai, Wuhan will never be the same.

The coronavirus has claimed more than 2,500 lives in the city, accounting for 77% of all Covid-19 deaths in China, according to the National Health Commission.

As life starts to regain some semblance of normality, thousands of bereft families are faced with a task that has been put on hold for months: burying their loved ones.

«My heart was broken in Wuhan,» Zhang said of his hometown in central China, the original epicenter of the now global pandemic. «Inside, I’m filled with grief, and anger.»

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