The first high-speed train, G1005, leaving Wuhan for Shenzhen after the 76-day lockdown was lifted on the provincial capital of Hubei Province arrived at Shenzhen North Railway Station at 1:02 p.m. yesterday, carrying 288 passengers.

Mr. Chen (L) and his family members pose for a photo upon arrival at Shenzhen North Railway Station from Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, yesterday.

The second train, G77, reached the station 15 minutes later, transporting 860 passengers from Wuhan to the city.

After 11 weeks of lockdown, people went outdoors and by the thousands boarded the first trains and planes leaving Wuhan as outbound travel restrictions were lifted yesterday.

More than 55,000 passengers were estimated to leave Wuhan for cities across China by train yesterday, according to China Railway Wuhan Group. Of them, 40 percent, or about 20,000 passengers, came to cities in the Pearl River Delta.

Some 2,800 people arrived in Shenzhen by trains from Wuhan yesterday, while 270 left Shenzhen for Wuhan, Shenzhen North Railway Station said.

A total of 276 passenger trains left or went through Wuhan railway stations yesterday, 54 of them starting from Wuhan. Of the total, 15 trains were bound for the Shenzhen North Railway Station.

“Each passenger needs to go through temperature checks. We have advised passengers to keep a safe distance and have disinfected the whole area of the station,” Zhang Ludan, the on-duty head of Shenzhen North Railway Station, said at an interview yesterday.

In the air, the first flight from Wuhan to Shenzhen landed at Shenzhen International Airport at 9:36 a.m. yesterday. Upon arrival, all the 58 passengers of MU2477 had body temperature checks and presented their green QR code and paperwork showing they were not a health risk before they were allowed to disembark.

China Southern Airlines resumed two flights, CZ6637 and CZ3356, in the morning and evening, respectively, between Shenzhen and Wuhan yesterday. It deployed an A330-300 for the morning flight that left Wuhan at 9:30 a.m. The flight also reserved the seats in the three rows at the rear as independent quarantine areas in case of emergencies. During the flight, disinfection in the lavatories was conducted every hour and temperature checks were conducted regularly as required.

Starting from Saturday, the company will arrange five flights a day between the two cities.

Flight ZH9127 operated by Shenzhen Airlines, the first flight from Shenzhen to Wuhan, left at 7:25 a.m. The airline resumed flights from Wuhan to Hohhot, Quanzhou, Shenyang, Nanning and Lanzhou yesterday, and plans to resume 70 percent of its domestic flights by early May. Before the boarding, all passengers were required to register their personal information and show their green health code.

Under the lockdown in Wuhan that started Jan. 23, train services and flights were canceled and checkpoints were set up along the roads.