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Phillip Schofield notices surprising detail about public in Wuhan during interview

Phillip Schofield was left stunned on This Morning today after noticing that the public in the background of an interview set in Wuhan weren't social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic. 

Holly Willoughby and Phil addressed the news that residents in Wuhan, China, were finally being allowed out after 76 days in lockdown.

ITV Asia correspondent Debi Edward joined them from Wuhan railway station and spoke about what has begun to happen in the city.

She revealed: "The train station behind me is open, the airport is open and the city border is open. And from midnight people were going across the border in their cars and leaving from the train station, keen to get home. Many of them have been displaced since the lockdown on the 23rd of January.

Holly and Phil spoke to ITV Asia correspondent Debi Edward in Wuhan (ITV)
Debi Edward described the situation in Wuhan (ITV)

"But unfortunately it is not everybody who is free to move in Wuhan, there is still several communities that have been new cases in the last few days and people that are still restricted to two hours out a day being allowed to go out of their homes.

"It's not an opening of the floodgates but it's certainly a positive move here day today."

She said that everyone was required to wear masks outdoors (ITV)
(ITV)

Holly pointed out that everyone was still wearing masks and Debi said that the public were still required to wear them by the government.

Phil pointed out: "It doesn't look like they're social distancing behind you..."

"They're not," she replied. "We've actually just been to be tested for going back to Beijing and we were in a hospital and they were very much not social distancing. It was making us quite nervous.

"I think the wearing of the masks and the checking of the temperatures and checking of the health is perhaps making people more reassured about that.

"And it's not something that's really been enforced here apart from at the shops where there are those markers trying to keep people a meter apart."

*This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV

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