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Scores of travellers are flooding train stations across China anxious to travel home for the important Lunar New Year festivities to see family that Covid-19 has prevented them from meeting for almost two years.
Despite the easing of travel restrictions to and from Shanghai, other regions across China have come under severe lockdown measures.
Xi'an city, in the West of China, was under strict lockdown in early January, with a ban even on going out to purchase food.
Although journeys may be permitted in some regions, travellers still face rigid testing regulations.
School teacher Chen is off to her parents for a mere five days.
As the Winter Olympics kick off in China, coinciding with the holiday period, authorities are pulling out all the stops to safeguard against any possible outbreaks that could jeopardise the games.
Nevertheless, officials and scientists in the country are seeking less stringent measures given the high vaccination rate, of nearly 85 percent, and the endemic presence of the virus.
But given that the Lunar New Year is a major festival in China and most Southeast Asian nations, scenes of stations teeming with nervous travellers eager to get home will be a recurrent image across the region.
