Residents cheering as members of a medical assistance team from Chongqing depart after helping with the coronavirus recovery effort in Yunmeng county, in Xiaogan city in China's central Hubei province. China announced on Tuesday (March 24) that a lockdown would be lifted on more than 50 million people in central Hubei province where the coronavirus first emerged late last year. - AFP
BEIJING: China announced on Tuesday (March 24) an end to travel curbs at the epicentre of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, as governments around the world tightened lockdowns affecting 1.7 billion people in a desperate effort to slow the spread of the deadly disease.
Hubei, where the coronavirus emerged late last year, will allow healthy residents to leave the province from midnight, officials said, two months after they were ordered to stay indoors.
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