After more than two months of lockdown, the city is learning that it’s not so easy to return to “normal.” Life has been altered in all sorts of ways.

Residents’ movements are still highly controlled, workers are slow to return to factories, and supply chains are in disarray. Shopping malls have re-opened, but they’re largely empty — most people are still too scared to go out for anything but essentials.

The pandemic’s first epicenter offers a window into a post-virus future for the rest of the world