China on Wednesday downgraded the risk level of the coronavirus in its epicentre Wuhan from high to medium and resumed bus services within the city for the first time since the nine-week lockdown even as a new study said thousands of positive cases there may have gone under the radar.
China has decided to lift the three-month lockdown on morethan 56 million people in the central Hubei province.
However, the prolonged lockdown of Hubei’s capital Wuhanwill end on April 8, lifting the mass quarantine over the city with apopulation of over 11 million.
Also, Wuhan will resume commercial flights from April 8,excluding international flights and flights to and from Beijing.
The government has downgraded the risk level of Wuhan forCOVID-19 outbreak from high to medium, state-run China Daily reported onWednesday.
While Hubei and Wuhan has not reported any new COVID-19case, four people died in the city taking the death toll in China to 3,281, theNational Health Commission (NHC) said on Wednesday.
China on Wednesday said that no new domestically transmittedcase was reported on the Chinese mainland on Tuesday but 47 new imported caseswere reported in the country, taking the total number of such cases to 474, itsaid.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that majorityof the imported cases are the Chinese nationals returning from abroad.The overall confirmedcases on the mainland reached 81,218 by the end of Tuesday. This included 3,281people who died of the disease, 4,287 patients still being treated and 73,650patients discharged after recovery, the NHC said.