With the reopening of its doors, yesterday, after two months of stone due to the spread of the new Corona virus, the Chinese province of Hubei is witnessing severe congestion in trains and buses and bottlenecks in traffic, while the stone imposed on 11 million people will not be lifted before April 8.

In front of Maching City, a city of 800,000 people, a crowd accompanied by children lined up in the rain to be able to buy a travel card and leave the province, which has been cut off from the country since the end of January.

The local authorities did not allow an AFP team to leave the train station to speak to the passengers.

The Chinese government announced, the day before yesterday, that restrictions on movement will be lifted with some conditions from midnight to the entire province of Hubei, with the exception of its largest city, Wuhan, where the virus appeared at the end of 2019 before it spread throughout the world.

The stone imposed on 11 million people will not be lifted until April 8th.

The province has a population of 50 million and has witnessed the largest spread of the epidemic, which has led to the death of about 3300 people in China, out of more than 80 thousand infected with the virus.

The closure of the province was imposed before the long Chinese New Year holiday, in which millions of migrant workers in the eastern and southern cities of the country returned to their areas of origin.

The result is that thousands of migrants are anxiously awaiting the possibility of them returning to their workplaces from which to support their families.

In Huangang, which has a population of seven million people and was one of the cities most affected by the epidemic, workers with their bags waiting to board buses to leave the region, as shown in pictures published by the New China News Agency.

One of them told AFP that he was returning to Wenzhou, a port city in the east of the country. "I was stuck at home here in Hubei two months ago," he said.

Besides transport by trains and buses, three airports in the region are supposed to open on Wednesday, but Wuhan Airport is not among them. The authorities clarified that freedom of movement includes only healthy people, and this must be done electronically via green coded numbers registered on their phones.

Trains will be allowed to transport passengers to Wuhan from Saturday.

It is still forbidden to leave the city, but about 30 roads leading to Wuhan were reopened yesterday, in front of drivers with the green encoded number, as reported by Chinese media, which released pictures of long congestion lines on the roads.

Some residents, who were prevented two months ago from returning to the province, were able to do so on Wednesday morning.

Before landing at Maching Station, Gu Wai, who works for a French Press school, explained that she had bought from Beijing the first train card she had obtained.

It is the first time that she has returned to Hubei since imposing a stone on the province. "It was very cruel," she said.

Across the country, no recent cases of local origin were recorded, but 47 'imported' cases from abroad were detected, bringing the number of these injuries to 474.

Four new deaths were recorded, including three in Hubei.

Infection has decreased dramatically in the past month in China, which Italy has led in the number of deaths from the emerging Corona virus.

Recording of infections from people from abroad raises fears that the virus will spread again. Cities have imposed several strict quarantine rules on new arrivals.

This is the case among those who are still demanding a 14-day quarantine for visitors from abroad or from another region. People from Hubei are still not allowed to enter the Chinese capital.

Thousands of migrants anxiously await the possibility of them returning to their places of work from which to support their families.

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A road leading to Wuhan was reopened yesterday to drivers with the green encoded number.