The Chinese authorities are to lift the latest restrictions on the central city of Wuhan, in which the Corona epidemic first appeared in the world, more than two and a half months after it was subjected to strict closure, in an attempt to control the emerging disease.
From midnight on Tuesday (4pm GMT), traffic will return to normal in Wuhan, and traffic will also be resumed. Cars will be able to leave the city, and people can travel by trains provided they are healthy, and they have not had any contact with people recently.
The resumption of normality in the city, home to 11 million people, is seen as an important sign of China that the country's worst health crisis in decades has ended.
Anxiety arises
Al-Jazeera correspondent Shaima Joe E from Wuhan indicated Monday that China is concerned about cases coming from abroad and asymptomatic injuries, and said that the local authorities in Wuhan - despite the official lifting of the home quarantine - still repeated their calls to citizens to adhere to their homes and avoid going out unless absolutely necessary and avoid Gatherings.
Authorities in Wuhan canceled the "epidemic" case in 45 housing compounds due to the appearance of asymptomatic cases and other unspecified reasons, according to the official Xinhua news agency yesterday.
A "pandemic" situation allows residents in Wuhan to leave their homes for two hours to do the necessary things.
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Hubei Territory
Hubei Province - its capital, Wuhan - began late last month to ease travel restrictions as the authorities sought to resume economic activities, but the rise in asymptomatic injuries raises concern, especially with Wuhan's willingness to allow citizens to travel outside the city from tomorrow, Wednesday, weeks after Isolate the affected city in late January.
It is believed that the Corona virus - which has not been found for up to one hour - has been transmitted from an unknown animal to humans at a wildlife market in Wuhan in December.
Among the total of more than 80,000 cases of corona infection registered officially in China, there were 50,000 in Wuhan alone, and there were 2,500 deaths in the city out of 3,300 deaths recorded nationwide.