Except coronavirus epicentre Wuhan, all cities in China's Hubei province set to resume domestic flights from tomorrow

Domestic operations in China's Hubei province except in Wuhan Tianhe International Airport will be resumed from Sunday, China's Civil Aviation Regulator (CAAC) said on Friday.

|Mar 28, 2020, 14:41:46 IST

Beijing: China has said the domestic passenger flights will resume operations in the coronavirus epicentre Hubei province, except for its capital Wuhan, from Sunday as part of a plan to ease lockdown in the region after it reported zero COVID-19 cases for several days.No new confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease were reported in Wuhan on Friday, though the city reported three new fatalities, taking the total death toll in China to 3,295.Follow LIVE Updates on Coronavirus Outbreak hereThe Central Hubei province has so far reported a total of 67,801 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 50,006 in Wuhan.Domestic operations in the province except in Wuhan Tianhe International Airport will be resumed from Sunday, China's Civil Aviation Regulator (CAAC) said on Friday.Local bus and train services have already resumed in Wuhan and Hubei province.Wuhan and the province with over 56 million people were kept under lockdown from 23 January as part of aggressive measures to bring down COVID-19 cases which rapidly spread in the area.Flight operations from Wuhan would start from 8 April, CAAC said.Due to mounting pressure from the epidemic prevention and control, the flights to resume services exclude international passenger flights, flights to and from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and those between Hubei and Beijing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.The cargo flights will resume operations from 29 March at all airports in the central Hubei Province.Aviation companies are encouraged to add extra domestic and international cargo flights to stabilise the supply chain, the CAAC said.The novel coronavirus, that first originated in Wuhan in December, has wreaked havoc across the globe, upending life and businesses.According to Johns Hopkins University data, 27,333 people have died due to the disease across over 170 countries. Italy has the highest number of deaths at 9,134, followed by Spain 5,138 and China 3,174.The United States leads in the number of COVID-19 with 104,007 infections confirmed so far, followed by Italy (86,498) and China (81,906).

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