China will lift restrictions on movement in most areas of Hubei province, ending a lockdown of the area brought on by the coronavirus outbreak.
People who are cleared will be able to leave the province after midnight on Tuesday.
Restrictions on the hardest-hit area of Wuhan, a city of 11 million where the virus originated, will remain until April 8.
China barred people from leaving or entering Wuhan and the wider province on January 23 as Covid-19 began spreading to the rest of China and overseas during the Lunar New Year holiday, when many Chinese travel.
Hubei has had almost no new infections for more than a week.
It comes on the first day of a near-lockdown in the UK.
On Monday, Boris Johnson outlined strict new measures to curb the spread of Covid-19, ordering people to only leave the house for a few specific reasons.
The measures will be in place for at least three weeks and will see the closure of non-essential shops, libraries, playgrounds and outdoor gyms, and places of worship.
