A Wuhan, China, man who documented the first COVID-19 outbreak in his city has been freed from jail after three years, the BBC reported Tuesday.

Fang Bin was one of several citizen journalists who vanished in February, 2020, after sharing videos of the city at the pandemic epicenter. He was hit with a three-year term after a secret trial.

Fang was released Sunday in good health, the BBC reported, citing unnamed sources, and is back at home. The BBC said it was unable to reach his family for comment.

In one Fang video, he is shown counting eight body bags outside a COVID hospital in the space of 5 minutes — and was followed by a video urging: "All people revolt — hand the power of the government back to the people.”

The fate of another whistleblower — Zhang Zhan, a 39-year-old former lawyer, detained in May, 2020, and jailed for four years in December, 2020 — is still not clear, the BBC reported.

Meanwhile, many in China just want to forget the pandemic.

"I visited China in March, and my observation is that people there want to move on and leave the past behind," Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations told the BBC.

"They had to endure the draconian zero-COVID for a prolonged period, and now they yearn for a return to a more normal way of life."

Not everyone in Wuhan has forgotten what things were like in early 2020.

"Society is revising the memory of this period," one 31-year-old resident told the BBC, declining to give his name. "My mum still doesn't really understand the virus. If the media start reporting about virus again, she will wear a mask. She is really frightened."

Another resident, Yang Min, who lost her only child to COVID in January, 2020, and is trying to file a lawsuit against the local government, told the BBC that an early warning from officials would have saved her daughter.

Now under surveillance, she told the BBC she's not backing down: "I have already lost the most precious thing in life. What else can they take away from me?"

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