WUHAN, CHINA (AFP) - Thousands of Chinese travellers rushed to leave coronavirus-ravaged Wuhan early on Wednesday (April 8) as authorities lifted a more than two-month prohibition on outbound travel from the city where the global pandemic first emerged.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WUHAN, CHINA - Thousands of Chinese travellers rushed to leave coronavirus-ravaged Wuhan early on Wednesday as authorities lifted a more than two-month prohibition on outbound travel from the city where the global pandemic first emerged.
State-run Xinhua news agency said columns of passenger cars also lined up to stream out of the city at midnight as road barricades on its outskirts were dismantled, and that flights also resumed early Wednesday at Wuhan's international airport."I've been stuck for 77 days! I've been stuck for 77 days!" shouted one man who arrived at the railway station for a train back to his home province of Hunan.
LONG TIME, NO SEE Chinese media outlets hailed the removal of the travel ban, with headlines posted on websites after midnight saying:"Wuhan, long time, no see." Its official national tally of deaths and overall cases has plummeted in recent weeks, with the National Health Commission saying Tuesday that no new deaths had been logged the preceding 24 hours.Relief has been tempered, however, by caution over new risks: rising numbers of infected people arriving in China from abroad - primarily returning Chinese citizens - and the invisible threat of asymptomatic cases.
Chinese disease-control officials said in January that the virus likely leapt from wildlife to humans at a Wuhan market that sold wild animals for food.Various restrictions on movement within the sprawling metropolis will remain in place to guard against a second wave of infections, arguing that"even greater vigilance is needed" now that travel measures are being relaxed.
"In the end, everyone was stuck here together," said a 25-year-old Wuhan man who came home for January's Chinese New Year holiday and got stuck."There was definitely some difficulty. But we just had to restrain ourselves and stay home."
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