China allows workers to leave virus-hit Hubei amid efforts to kick-start economy

China is relaxing travel restrictions in the province of Hubei, which was hardest-hit by the Covid-19 outbreak, sending thousands of workers back to jobs at factories desperate to get production going again.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported that cities just outside the epicentre of Wuhan were chartering buses to send back to work those residents who had returned home for the Lunar New Year in late January.