A volunteer helps two students cross a street Tuesday in front of an elementary school in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei province.

Large groups of arrivals wait to leave Hankou Railway Station on Sunday. The central Chinese city of more than 2,800 schools and kindergartens is expected to see about 1.4 million students return for this year’s autumn semester.

A screen shows temperature scans of passengers at the station.

A student wheels his luggage back to the Huazhong University of Science and Technology Saturday in Wuhan.

Huazhong students return to campus after spending eight months away due to the coronavirus pandemic.