Thousands of people wearing masks — some in full protective gear — scrambled to leave Wuhan as the city lifted its more than two-month-long lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis.
Within hours of the lockdown ending, about 65,000 people had left the city by train and plane alone, according to local media.
About 1,000 vehicles went through a busy highway toll booth at Wuhan’s border between midnight — when authorities first lifted the barricades — and 7 a.m, according to Yan Xiangsheng, a district police chief.
Crowds — many wearing masks and raincoats — thronged Wuhan’s Hankou railway station at numbers unseen since early Jan. 23, when authorities announced they were sealing off the city, with only a few hours’ notice, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Sixty people were on board the first train leaving the city Wednesday, bound for Jingzhou, according to ... (Read more)
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