(Yicai Global) Sept. 1 -- Wuhan, once the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, is to resume international flights from mid-September after a seven-month suspension, the People’s Daily reported today.

Already several foreign carriers have applied for permission to recommence flights connecting the capital of central Hubei province with Seoul, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Hanoi, Sihanouk, Tokyo, Jakarta and Singapore, the city’s civil aviation administration said.

Domestic flights restarted on April 8. Passenger throughput at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport reached 60,000 people a day at the end of August, almost 90 percent of the passenger volume at the same period last year, the administration said.

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