Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Monday, April 13th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today we're going to be doing something a little different on the briefing, parts of Wuhan, the central Chinese

city where the coronavirus pandemic started, is back open. But the move is being met with cautious

optimism. Residents are worried about a second wave of the virus.

Meanwhile the virus has been slow to spread around China's island neighbor Japan.

But that's changed recently as Japan entered a partial lockdown and declared a state of emergency.

I'll take a look at the differing circumstances between these two places and when it comes to the coronavirus,

what the road ahead might look like.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news

you need to start your day. Wu Han spent an astounding 76 days, about two and a half months under lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Last week the city in Hube province ended the travel ban, which was the world's largest

mass quarantine.

But it was also an important moment for Beijing. China's central government

wants to show the world that it's winning the battle against the virus. But U-HAN

remains deeply scarred. The F.T.'s China Financial Correspondent, Don Wineland, has more.

When I look out my hotel window, in many ways it looks like a normal Chinese city.

There's lots of cars on the road, there's people walking and riding bikes, but when I look a little bit closer, I start to notice the things that make Wu Han at this moment you know there are people in in hazmat suits walking around it's still definitely not life as usual here but it's certainly recovering some of its normal activity.

So down, how has the city's business community survived the lockdown?

From what I can tell, large businesses in Wuhan are doing relatively well.

There's a lot of state-owned enterprise in the province of Hubei and also in the city of Wuhan.

So those types of companies are known for not firing redundant staff, even in good times.

So I think they've been able to protect a lot of their workforce.

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