Government expects 55,000 people to leave city by train. FMTNews Covid19
Travellers with their luggage walk past Hankou railway station in Wuhan on April 7.
“Wuhan has lost a lot in this epidemic, and Wuhan people have paid a big price,” said a 21-year-old man surnamed Yao, who was heading back to his restaurant job in Shanghai.Government estimates say as many as 55,000 people are expected to flow out Wednesday by train from the city, which was placed under an unprecedented quarantine lockdown on Jan 23.
The rest of surrounding Hubei province quickly followed, confining tens of millions of people at homes and cutting the province off from the world as transport in and out was halted.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.
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