Officials say healthy people will be allowed to move freely around certain areas in Hubei province, the center of Covid-19 in China.

An application on the phone will be used to display the health color code of people. Accordingly, people carrying green code, living in areas with medium and low risk of disease will be allowed to travel within the province, the government of Hubei, China said today.

The green code was similar to good health and there was no exposure. People who are confirmed or suspected to be infected with nCoV carry the red code and must be isolated, while the yellow code is the close contact of the case. Low-risk areas are places where there have been no new cases in the past two weeks.

Officials, however, did not mention allowing people to leave Hubei province, nor were there any restrictions on the capital of Wuhan, where the Covid-19 outbreak was started. 17 out of 19 new infections today in China are in Wuhan. The country currently records more than 80,000 Covid-19 patients, more than 3,100 deaths and more than 70% have recovered.

Hubei Province was frozen in January to prevent nCoV from spreading, leaving about 56 million people affected. In the context of many positive signs, the provincial city government of Jiangxi today announced it would "restore order and production."

The announcement did not specify a specific time, but said "all traffic control stations in the city will be removed, all public transport and businesses will be operational again". On March 7, Tiem Giang, home to about one million people, was still classified as a high-risk area.

Chinese President Xi Jinping today visits Wuhan for the first time since the outbreak began in December 2019. The visit is believed to show Beijing's confidence that the epidemic is under control.