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China to end lockdown in most of Hubei as domestic coronavirus cases drop

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Chinese authorities said Tuesday they will end a two-month lockdown of most of coronavirus-hit Hubei province at midnight, as domestic cases of the virus continue to subside.

People with a clean bill of health will be allowed to leave, the provincial government said. The city of Wuhan, where the outbreak started in late December, will remain locked down until April 8.

China barred people from leaving or entering Wuhan starting Jan. 23 in a surprise middle-of-the-night announcement and expanded it to most of the province in succeeding days.

Train service and flights were cancelled and checkpoints set up on roads into the central province. The drastic steps came as the coronavirus began spreading to the rest of China and overseas during the

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