All provincial regions in Chinese mainland have resumed intra-province bus service while 29 provincial regions, other than Beijing and Hubei province, have resumed inter-province bus service by Saturday as the epidemic further eases, the Ministry of Transport said on Sunday.

Provinces with large number of incoming and outgoing migrant workers, such as Sichuan, Zhejiang and Henan, have arranged point to point charted buses and trains to help migrant workers return to their job, said Wang Xiuchun, deputy director of the ministry's department of transport service.

The provinces have arranged 138,000 charted buses and trains to transport 3.02 million migrant workers back to the cities since the Spring Festival, Wang said.

The number of health inspection stations on the road has been reduced by 12,000 from the peak time to more than 8,000 currently, she said at a news conference.

The ministry has launched green channels for vehicles carrying epidemic prevention and control material and other important daily necessities, she said.

It has made great effort to make sure couriers and postal workers are be allowed to enter residential communities, she added.