Transportation volume during Spring Festival holiday dropped 45 percent year on year due to the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak, registering 283 million trips from January 25 to February 14, said Liu Xiaoming, vice minister for the Ministry of Transport at a press conference on Saturday.

It is estimated that by the end of February, the passenger flow will be mainly migrant workers returning to work, said Liu, adding that about 80 million migrant workers have returned to their work cities during the post-Spring Festival travel rush so far.

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