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Deserted streets, no private vehicles on the roads and public transport virtually absent—all these tell the grim story of Chinese city of Wuhan, the ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak, according to a student who recently returned from the neighbouring country.

Ashish Kurme, an MBBS student studying at a university near Wuhan, said the first case of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) was detected on December 8, 2019, but he came to know about the outbreak only in the first week of January.

Kurme, a native of adjoining Latur district, was among the Indians evacuated from the Chinese city in the aftermath of the deadly disease’s outbreak.

He said initially, there was no restriction on movement of people in the city, which was later placed under lockdown as the Covid-19 cases started mounting.