After being locked down for 76 days because of the epidemic prevention and control, Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province, woke up starting from April 8 as restaurants and companies resume operation and supermarkets reopen to public.

The No.2 Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan. (Photo/People's Daily)

The catering business in Wuhan is beginning to recover. “Although citizens are not allowed to eat at the restaurants yet, they could order take-out food now,” said Liu Guoliang, director of the Wuhan Catering Association.

About 10,000 restaurants out of the over 50,000 in Wuhan now provide food-delivery services, delivering over 100,000 shares of food every day, Liu added.

Two girls chat with each other at a commercial street in Wuhan. (Photo/Xinhua)

Many supermarkets have opened to the public in an orderly manner. The Zhongbai Chain Store in the Huangpu Road of Wuhan would take the temperature of the customers and check the health codes of them at the entrance for the sake of security, according to Luo Zhen, manager of the store.

The store has restored to 90 percent of its supplies and the customer flow volume is 80 percent that before the epidemic, according to Luo.

Meanwhile, public transportation such as buses and subways has also been put into operation in Wuhan. On March 21, 47 employees under the Wuhan subway project at the Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd. arrived in Wuhan and began to check and maintain the subways in the city so that the subways could resume operation soon.

While inspecting the subway tunnels and stations, the company has prepared medical supplies for the employees and taken various measures such as taking the temperatures of the employees and registering to ensure the security of the employees.

With their efforts, the subways in Wuhan have officially resumed operation starting from March 28.