SHIJIAZHUANG — The northern city of Shijiazhuang, hard-hit by the recent COVID-19 resurgence, resumed the city's passenger train service on Feb 8 as the epidemic situation improves.

The city announced that it would start to resume highway services and keep the current measures on passenger flights and interprovincial and intercity coach services.

The city tightened travel controls to curb the spread of the virus early last month by taking measures including suspending public transport, passenger flights, trains and long-distance coach services as well as restricting highway traffic.

Public transportation services in the city started resumption late last month.

Hebei province, which administers Shijiazhuang, reported no new confirmed COVID-19 cases or asymptomatic infections on Feb 7.