Photos: Life in Wuhan after the 76-day lockdown ends
Photos: Life in Wuhan after the 76-day lockdown ends
Thousands of Chinese travellers rushed to leave Covid-19 coronavirus-ravaged Wuhan on April 8, as authorities lifted a more than two-month prohibition on outbound travel from the city where the global pandemic first emerged
Empty bed frames are seen inside a convention centre that was used as a makeshift hospital to treat patients with the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Wuhan, China, April 9, 2020.
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Chinese workers and health officials wear protective white suits as travellers from Wuhan gather to take buses. The travellers are processed and taken to 14 days of quarantine, after arriving on the first trains to Beijing on April 8, 2020. China lifted its lockdown on Wuhan, the first epicentre of Covid-19 after 76 days, allowing healthy people to leave.
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Medical staff members receive flowers upon returning from Wuhan to their homes in Bozhou, in China's eastern Anhui province, on April 10, 2020.
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Medical staff kiss their relative after he returns home from Wuhan, after helping with the Covid-19 coronavirus recovery effort, on April 10, 2020.
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Medical workers walk by a police robot at the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport after travel restrictions to leave Wuhan were lifted.
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A traveller wearing a face mask hugs a woman outside Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, after travel restrictions to leave Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, were lifted, April 8, 2020.
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A couple sit close together near the Eastlake park on April 9, 2020, in Wuhan, after the city lifted almost 11 weeks of lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19.
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In this photo taken on April 8, 2020, a face-mask clad butcher waits for customers at her stall in Wuhan, China's central Hubei province.
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People stand inside a boat that is operational again on the Yangtze River on April 8, 2020, in Wuhan.
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Passengers wearing face masks ride a ferry on Yangtze River after travel restrictions to leave Wuhan were lifted, April 8, 2020.
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A ship with containers sails along the Yangtze River in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on April 10, 2020.
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Businesses limp back to normal as employees work on a production line inside a Dongfeng Honda factory after lockdown measures were eased on April 8, 2020.
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A pilot leans out of the cockpit window to wave goodbye before the China Eastern airlines flight, the first domestic flight from Wuhan that resumed service after travel restrictions were lifted, takes off from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport to Sanya, April 8, 2020.
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Migrant workers wait for work in the street on April 9, 2020, in Wuhan.
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Security personnel on guard as an ‘Optics Valley Quantum’ tram runs, as operations resumed for two tram lines on April 8 in Wuhan.
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Residents cross overpass as traffic operations are resumed on April 9, 2020 in Wuhan, after almost 11 weeks of lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19.
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Travellers are seen crowded inside Hankou Railway Station after travel restrictions to leave Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, were lifted, on April 8, 2020.
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Two Wuhan citizens wear protective masks for a walk under the Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan.