SAHARANEWS – Wuhan metropolis in China, where the Covid-19 pandemic started, will this week lift its final restrictions after more than two and a half months of a total lockdown.
Traffic is set to return to normal, from midnight on Wednesday, (1600 GMT on Tuesday). Flights are also due to resume, cars will be able to leave the city again and people can travel by train, on condition that they are healthy and have had no recent contact with infected patients.
The pandemic which has devastated the country was said to have infected the human population through an unknown animal species in Wuhan in December.
Out of more than the 80,000 officially registered cases in China, 50,000 were in Wuhan alone, with Wuhan metropolis recording 2,500 deaths out of the country’s 3,300 listed Covid-19 deaths.