According to him, this is usually the busiest period for the country's transport system.
Xiaoming noted that changes in passenger flow rates were caused by emergency measures taken.
“Yesterday was the first day of vacation, and our statistics show that passenger traffic compared to last year fell by 28.8%. Passenger traffic in rail transport decreased by 41.5%, air transportation - by 41.6%, automobile - by 25%, ”RIA Novosti quoted Xiaomina as saying.
It was previously reported that all Chinese travel companies stop organizing group tours due to the proliferation of a new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV.
Reinforcing measures in China to detect coronavirus in vehicles have also been reported.
In late January, it became known that in the Chinese city of Wuhan, dozens of people fell ill with an unknown form of pneumonia. It was later reported that a new type of coronavirus was the cause of the outbreak of viral pneumonia.
According to recent data, the number of coronavirus infections in China increased until 1975, 56 deaths were recorded.