Photos: Wuhan, China's coronavirus hot spot gradually revives

People wearing face masks practise social distancing as they wait outside a Postal Savings Bank of China branch in Wuhan. After being cut-off from the rest of the country for two months, the reopening of Wuhan, where the epidemic first erupted in late December, marks a turning point in China's fight against the virus, though the contagion has since spread to over 200 countries.

People wearing protective masks walk on a re-opened shopping mall in Wuhan. The city where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown for its population of 11 million by restarting some metro services and reopening borders, allowing some semblance of normality to return and families to reunite.

A hotel employee wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant on an arriving guest, as a preventative measure against the coronavirus in Wuhan

Staff members holding disinfectant gel and thermometer stand at an entrance of a shopping mall in Wuhan, Hubei province

Staff members wearing face masks get ready for a ceremony before a Gucci store inside a shopping mall opens in Wuhan

Volunteers in protective suits disinfect a shopping complex in Wuhan

Medical workers who volunteered in Wuhan to help combat the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, sign a banner before boarding a bus to return home, in Wuhan

People wearing face masks shop at a supermarket in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province

People with face masks eat outside a McDonald's restaurant in Wuhan

A man wearing a protective suit takes the temperature in a neighbourhood in Wuhan, after travel restrictions into the city were eased following more than two months of lockdown due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak

Pharmacy workers wearing protective suit attend to the public in a pharmacy in Wuhan

Youths wearing facemasks meet at a park in Wuhan

A woman wearing a face mask rides her scooter along a street in Wuhan

Community volunteers wearing protective gear (in white) check residents entering and leaving a compound in Wuhan

A store worker in protective suit waits for customers at a re-opened retail street in Wuhan

People wearing face masks queue to enter a supermarket in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province

Volunteers in protective suits work on disinfecting a shopping complex in Wuhan

Medical workers who volunteered in Wuhan to help combat the coronavirus outbreak, stand as a group before they board a bus to return home, in Wuhan

Barber Xiong Juan cuts a customer's hair at a residential compound in Wuhan

An ambulance medical staff sprays disinfectant on his colleague after arriving at Wuhan Red Cross Hospital with an elderly woman, who recovered from COVID-19

People eat on a bench at a shopping complex in Wuhan, Hubei province

A woman wearing a face mask shops at a supermarket in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province

Workers wearing protective suits check customers' health QR codes at the entrance of a re-opened shopping mall in in Wuhan

People wearing face masks practise social distancing as they wait outside a Hankou Bank branch in Wuhan

A store worker waits for customers at a re-opened retail street in Wuhan

Men wearing facemasks stand on Wuhan Bridge over the Yangtze River in Wuhan