Hubei lift its lockdown today ending two months of isolation. The region, which was the centre of the COVID-19 outbreak, was placed on total lockdown earlier this year in a desperate attempt to get the disease under control.
A worker at a factory in Nanjing sorting face masks being produced to satisfy increased demand
The draconian restrictions saw residents forced to stay indoors while people 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.
People wearing face masks walk through a rapeseed farm used to produce canola oil in China's central Jiangxi province that borders Hubei province
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.