The revival of the city's hard-hit nightlife offers a glimpse into a post-pandemic lifestyle.
Wuhan, China:
In a crowded Wuhan beer hall, Zhang Qiong wipes birthday cake from her face after a food fight with her friends.
"After experiencing the first wave of epidemic in Wuhan and then the liberation, I feel like I'm living a second life," says Zhang, 29, who works in a textiles shop in the central Chinese city that was the original epicentre of COVID-19.
Outside, maskless partygoers spill onto the streets, smoking and playing street games with toy machine guns and balloons.
People eat at a street restaurant at night, almost a year after the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Wuhan.