On March 8, the Hubei Airport Group issued a notice to prepare for resuming operations. The
notice said, according to arrangements by the Hubei Provincial and Wuhan Municipal Novel
Coronavirus Epidemic Prevention and Control Command Center, each unit of the Hubei
Airport Group should resume work starting March 10, each regional airport should complete
preparation for resuming operations by March 12, each company should complete preparations
for resuming flights and operations by March 16, and the group company and relevant
government offices should inspect the preparations on March 17. A reporter from a Company
who obtained information from someone close to the airport group, said “Now it is just in the
preparation stage. Whether to resume flights is dependent on how the epidemic develops from
March 15 to March 20.”
[Comment: There had been several incidents in the past few weeks in which a local
government planned to lift the “lockdown” but then reverted back, including: Wuhan allowed
people to leave the city for few hours, Beijing rescinded a plan to resume operations for the
movie industry, and Qianjiang City, Hubei Province retracted an announcement to unlock the
city.]
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