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China has lifted the blockade in the Hubei Province, where Wuhan belongs, and the virus epicenter has been made accessible from the 8th of next month. Although we are in a hurry to recover to our daily lives like this, it is a stumbling block that the number of overseas backflow confirmers continues to increase.

Correspondent Sung-Yeop Jung of Beijing.

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Hubei Province has closed the blockade outside of Wuhan as of 00:00 today (25th).

Hubei Province's 60 million residents are free to go anywhere with proof that there are no symptoms.

The blockade will be lifted on the 8th of next month. City blockade is only two and a half months.

Public transportation in the city is scheduled to resume operation.

Some sections of the Great Wall, a major tourist destination in Beijing, reopened in 59 days,

[Tourist: Very good. Now you see the true scenery, not the people.]

Famous tourist spots in other regions are also opening their doors and rapidly recovering to their daily lives.

However, the number of confirmed cases back from abroad continued to increase, reaching 427.

Following the Chinese government's strong counter-inflow control measures, Korean Air suspended its flight to Beijing for a month, and Asiana Airlines decided to make a temporary flight in Incheon without passengers.

In this situation, Chinese quarantine officials said that asymptomatic infected people should see symptoms during the quarantine period to be seen as confirmed.

In addition, asymptomatic patients are mostly treated on their own during the quarantine period, and in China's current defense system, there is no possibility that asymptomatic disease will spread the infection.