China's Forbidden City reopened, sold thousands of tickets within minutes


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The sprawling imperial palace sitting across Tiananmen Square has reopened. — AFP

China's Forbidden City has reopened, three months after it closed due to the coronavirus crisis – the latest signal that the country has brought the disease under control.

The sprawling imperial palace sitting across Tiananmen Square was shut down on Jan 25 as authorities closed tourist attractions and took other extraordinary measures to contain the virus, including locking down an entire province.

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