Visitors attend an exhibition on fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, Oct 15, 2020. Photo shows a scene of a makeshift hospital built to help contain the novel coronavirus outbreak in the city. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

Following the epidemic, Wuhan imposed a lockdown that lasted nearly 80 days, and was lifted on April 8 after the daily number of newly reported COVID-19 cases dropped to zero. Following the lockdown of Wuhan in January, China mobilized the whole country to help epidemic control in Hubei province, including sending more than 42,000 medical workers from across the country to the province.

Huang Yanhua, a head nurse at the Hubei Cancer Hospital in Wuhan, said she was really moved and happy to see everything has returned to normal in the city.

Huang said she was assigned to Leishenshan Hospital, which was completed at the height of the epidemic in Wuhan in February to exclusively receive COVID-19 patients, and spent nearly two months treating patients there.

"We saved 68 COVID-19 patients. I felt scared when treating the patients then, but now I feel honored for what I did," she said. "Wuhan is now peaceful, and this makes me very happy. I feel really proud of my country."

Visitors attend an exhibition on fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, Oct 15, 2020. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]

Zhang Zhaotang, an 85-year-old veteran who received treatment for one month at Huoshenshan Hospital after being infected with the novel coronavirus, said he was grateful for the doctors and nurses who saved his life.

"When hospitalized, I asked the doctors who treated me whether they were scared or not, and they told me no," he said while attending the exhibition. "I think they were also fearless warriors, just like us when fighting on the battlefield."