WUHAN, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Top tourist resorts in the city of Huanggang, central China's Hubei Province, will offer free visits for natives from Shandong and Hunan provinces that are partnered with the city to aid for the epidemic control.

A total of 1,240 medics from the two provinces rushed to Huanggang to help treat COVID-19 patients. They will be granted a "thank-you" card, which enables each one plus one to three family members to enjoy limitless free tours at all the city's top tourist sites, the city government said Monday.

Medical workers in the city can also enter the top-rated Class-A resorts free of charge for life.

Entrance fees will be waived for the natives holding ID cards registered in Shandong and Hunan, as well as the medical workers in other parts of Hubei, from the time the resorts reopen to the public to Dec. 31, 2021.

The medics sent to other parts of Hubei for the treatment of COVID-19 patients can have limitless free tours of the resorts bringing one family member by Dec. 31, 2024, according to the government.

Huanggang has 67 Class-A resorts, including the revolutionary base of Dabie Mountains that sit at the juncture of Hubei, Anhui and Henan.

Neighboring the provincial capital Wuhan, the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak, Huanggang is one of the cities worst hit by the epidemic. As of Sunday, Huanggang had reported 2,907 confirmed COVID-19 cases.