A cyclist is seen racing on the street of Northeast city of Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province on March 28, 2020. Though hit less hard by COVID-19 than Wuhan where the disease was first detected, the region's biting winter daunts outdoorsy people. As the weather warms up, outdoor exercises of less physical contact such as cycling are among the first to come back.

A photographer takes a picture of a local municipal transportation hub in Shanghai, of east China on March 27, 2020. After two month of vigorous measures to contain the epidemic, the Chinese financial hub is making progress resuming its normal pace of life. Yet the possibility of the pandemic biting back from outside China via international travellers still frays the nerves of city managers as well as its residents.

A farmer walks in front of a tea field in Enshi City of Hubei Province, March 29, 2020. The COVID-19 epidemic has turned people's life upside down in Hubei. Admitting to the epidemic effect on the local farming industry, the Chinese Agriculture and Rural Affairs Ministry has asured the province of sufficient relevant supplies to reboot production.

The Fujian Sturgeons basketball club teams up in an interior training match in the southeast city of Quanzhou, of Fujian Province on March 27, 2020. All of the major sporting events across the world have been brought to a halt because of the pandemic with no clear timetable for resumption. The Chinese Basketball tournament is no exception. Training is only carried on in strictly controlled spaces and the rules on participants’ access to the outside world have to be stringent. The initial plan to restart the 2019-2020 season in early April with no live spectators was only recently scrapped, with no new date set yet.