Hubei will lift its lockdown at midnight ending two months of isolation, Chinese authorities have confirmed. The region, which was the centre of the COVID-19 outbreak, was placed on total lockdown earlier this year in an attempt to get the disease under control.
The draconian restrictions saw residents were forced to stay indoors while people banned were banned from entering or leaving the crisis-hit region.
People who are cleared will be able to leave the province after midnight on Tuesday. However, restrictions on the city of Wuhan will remain until 8 April.
Wuhan residents will soon be allowed to leave with a health tracking code, a QR code, which will have an individual's health status linked to it.