China's Wuhan lifts lockdown

Wuhan, the original epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, ended its lockdown on April 8, after 76 days.

Train services and domestic flights have resumed, and highway entrances have been reopened.

Epidemic control and prevention remain a priority in Wuhan, according to a statement from Hu Shuguang, Wuhan's chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The Hubei provincial government announced that authorities would continue with identity recording and body temperature tests of all people entering or exiting residential areas, and would ensure that everyone was wearing a mask. All education establishments, from kindergartens to universities, would continue to postpone reopening, the government said.

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