Lives lost: Coronavirus tore through an entire family in Wuhan and claimed the patriarch, a man whom family described as 'ordinary,' but who lived through an extraordinary chapter of China's history.
This May 13, 2019 photo provided by Liu Dong’e shows her and her husband, Wu Chuanyong, while visiting Moscow. Wu Chuanyong had been enjoying a peaceful retirement in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The 68-year-old family patriarch began each morning with a stroll through the park and ended the day watching television dramas. Then the coronavirus hit, quickly spreading in Wuhan and around the world.
It was late January, just before China’s most important holiday, when Wu Di and his mother came down with a 102.2-degree fever. Three days later, his father’s temperature also hit 102.2, and his mother-in-law started coughing. Worried that it would interfere with his own recovery, Wu’s mother and wife concealed the news from him. He said he knew something was wrong, however, from his mother’s tone of voice over the phone.Hi father was just an ordinary person, Wu said: “He couldn’t have been more ordinary.”Wu’s parents were both “sent-down youth,” part of a mandatory program initiated by Chairman Mao Zedong in the mid-1900s that sent young people from the cities to labor in the countryside.
Despite his frugal nature, the younger Wu said his father always made sure the family had everything it needed.
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