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As the rest of world slowly goes into lockdown, the Chinese city of Wuhan where the virus first emerged last December has started re-opening, BBC reports.

Healthy residents and visitors - those with a "green" code on a health app - will now be able to leave the city. Train, road and rail connections have also resumed.

It's been 11 weeks since the city of 11 million people was shut down.

Since the outbreak began, more than 3,300 people have died in China - a large majority of them from Wuhan's Hubei province - and 81,740 have been confirmed as infected, according to official figures.