New Delhi: Thousands of Chinese attended a big electronic music party at a water park over the weekend in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus first emerged late last year.
The popular Wuhan Maya Beach Water Park was filled with people frolicking in swimsuits and goggles for an electronic music festival, many perched on rubber dinghies or wading up to their chest in water.
Pictures and videos of the party have gone viral on social media with people expressing shock over the carelessness shown by people while attending the party at the water park in Wuhan.
The park — which local media says has capped attendance at 50 percent of normal capacity — is offering half price discounts for female visitors.
A performer in a stage show at the front of the water waved at the crowd, packed close and waving their arms back, some snapping photos on phones protected in plastic pouches round their necks.
News agency AFP captured the pool party on camera: Watch here
Meanwhile in #Wuhan
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It may be recalled that the water park reopened in June after Wuhan opened up following a 76-day lockdown imposed by Chinese government to curb the spread of coronavirus in the country.
The first known cases of COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan late last year, a city of 11 million people, before the virus spread across the world, killing hundreds of thousands and crippling economies.
The lockdown was lifted in April, and there have been no new domestically transmitted cases officially reported in Hubei province, where Wuhan is the capital, since mid-May.
