China virus epicentre to open up as world locks down

"Stay at home," Prime Minister Boris Johnson says in a televised address to the nation, as he unveiled unprecedented peacetime measures. AFP
"Stay at home," Prime Minister Boris Johnson says in a televised address to the nation, as he unveiled unprecedented peacetime measures. AFP

BEIJING – China announced Tuesday an end to travel curbs at the epicentre of the 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 novel 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.

“We are celebrating today,” a female doctor surnamed Wu told AFP. (AFP)

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