Summary：As the novel coronavirus epidemic in Shanxi begins to come under control, the province's public transportation...

As the novel coronavirus epidemic in Shanxi begins to come under control, the province's public transportation is gradually getting back to normal, according to the local traffic authority.

Sources from the Shanxi Department of Transportation said that public highway passenger transportation services from Taiyuan, the provincial capital, to other cities and counties in Shanxi resumed last week.

On March 5, passengers lined up at the entrance to the Taiyuan Jiannan Bus Passenger Terminal, waiting for health checks by terminal employees before setting off to long-awaited destinations.

A passenger named Pei Yanglin couldn't hide his excitement.

Pei and his wife, residents in Yangquan county, visited their son in Taiyuan before Spring Festival.

His original plan was to look after his grandson during the first days of the winter vacation and then take the whole family back to Yangquan for the Spring Festival reunion.

However, the scheduled trip was delayed by the novel coronavirus outbreak for more than a month.

"I missed my pets and flowers in Yangquan," Pei said.

"When I learned that local emergency response was adjusted from level one to level two and bus services resumed, I knew it was time to go back home," he added.

Excited as they were, Pei and his wife waited in the well-spaced line. On the bus they were asked to be seated at a required distance from each other.

"The resumption of long-distance bus services is a good signal, showing that the epidemic is likely to be over in the near future and everything will be back to normal," said Cao Qing, a passenger about to travel by bus to Zuoquan county in the east of the province.

Amid the outbreak of the virus, public transportation was among the biggest hit in Shanxi.