Coronavirus Update reopens after two-month lockdown

• The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus emerged, is slowly reopening after more than two months of lockdown
• Spain sees its deadliest day yet with 832 fatalities
• The United States now has nearly 105,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to a tracker by Johns Hopkins University
• Germany says it doesn't expect to relax restrictions on public movement before April 20

Updates in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC/GMT)

11:05 Albanians will need a permit to leave the house to get necessities as part of stricter measures to contain the outbreak there.

Permission can be obtained by app or text message, which will allow one family member to go out.

The draconian measure includes a 40-hour curfew —  no movement or business activity is allowed from Saturday at 1 p.m. local time (1200 UTC) to Monday at 5 a.m. Police and military forces will patrol the streets to enforce the rule.

Albania has reported 186 cases of the new coronavirus with 10 deaths.

10:50 Spain has reported the highest daily rise in fatalities with 832 new deaths compared to a day earlier, the health ministry reported. The country's death toll is now 5689, the second-highest after Italy. The total number of infected rose to 72,248 from 64,059. 

10:45 Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, is beginning to relax measures after two months of strict lockdown. Metro services have begun running and high-speed train services into the capital have resumed.

Many controls still remain in place with the vast majority of shops still shut and roadblocks in place. Wuhan will not let people leave the city until April 8, when the airport is also set to re-open to internal flights.

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province where there have been 3,177 recorded deaths from COVID-19. China has confirmed 54 infections in arrivals from abroad over the past 24 hours, but no new internally transmitted cases. However, there is growing skepticism around Beijing's claim to have beaten the virus.

Meanwhile, a medical team sent by China has arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital city. The team also brought in-demand medical supplies including 10,000 N95 masks, 100,000 surgical masks and 10,000 testing kits, reported Chinese state media.

10:35 South African police fired rubber bullets towards hundreds of shoppers queueing outside a supermarket in Johannesburg, an AFP photographer said.

Between 200 and 300 people gathered outside the popular store in a crime-prone area in Johannesburg. But as they scrambled to secure their spots, many did not observe the recommended safe distance between them.

Police arrived in 10 patrol vehicles and started firing rubber bullets towards the shoppers and later used whips to get the shoppers to observe social distancing rules.

South Africa is under a 21-day lockdown and recorded its first death from the virus on Friday.