City of Yichang in China's Hubei eases travel curbs against coronavirus

Reuters

13 March 2020 at 12:34 am

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's city of Yichang in central Hubei province will loosen travel curbs adopted to rein in a coronavirus outbreak, allowing people to move in and out, the government said on Friday, in a statement on its website.

It will also allow the return of people from outside the province, employing a "health code" monitoring system that makes use of mobile telephone.

(Reporting by Huizhong Wu and Gao Liangping; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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