The Chinese city where the coronavirus epidemic first broke out, Wuhan, has ended a two-month lockdown, but a northern town started restricting the movement of its residents amid concerns of a second wave of infections in mainland China, Reuters reported.

Even as people leave the city, new imported cases in the northern province of Heilongjiang surged to a daily high of 25, fuelled by a continued influx of infected travellers arriving from Russia, which shares a land border with the province.

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