Hundreds of passengers were preparing to leave Wuhan by train, AFP noted on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, when the authorities lifted the closure imposed for two months on the Chinese city cradle of the epidemic of Covid- 19.
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At midnight local time (5 p.m. in France), the authorities lifted the restrictions preventing them from leaving Wuhan, a sign of a step towards an end to the health crisis in China. Since January 23, people present in this municipality of 11 million inhabitants of the center of the country could not leave the borders of the commune.