As coronavirus spread in Wuhan, China's secret deals with businesses caused major testing blunders
In January, thousands of people waited in hourslong lines for hospitals, sometimes next to corpses lying in hallways. But most couldn’t get the test they needed to be admitted as patients.
'I died too': A year after outbreak, Wuhan kin struggle to move on
One year after the coronavirus began spreading from the city, family members of those who died are no nearer to closure.
As China’s propaganda push continues, Wuhan emerges as a star
New television shows have paid tribute to the city where the coronavirus emerged, focusing on residents’ heroism and glossing over official mistakes.
China tries to flip the pandemic script, starring a 'reborn' Wuhan
China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic's origin story as it aims to seize the narrative at a time of growing global distrust of Beijing. The public relations blitz plays out daily in comments by ...
Three months after it reopened its economy, Wuhan’s uneven recovery offers a glimpse of the hard road back to normality for cities after containing the coronavirus. As of May, factory output, retail sales and exports in the city were nowhere near the same level as ...
How China tested 11 million people for the coronavirus in just two weeks
Wuhan is set to complete the testing of its entire population of 11 million as China pours massive resources into avoiding a resurgence of COVID-19 infections. Hitting the goal at a time when the U.S. and other countries are struggling to implement adequate testing has ...
About 140 Japanese return to Wuhan on chartered plane, sources say
Authorities allowed them to enter as part of efforts aimed at jump-starting the local economy, the sources said.
Wuhan lab had three live bat coronaviruses, but none matched COVID-19
The Chinese virology institute in the city where COVID-19 first emerged has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the new contagion wreaking chaos across the world, its director has said. Scientists think COVID-19 — which first emerged in Wuhan and has ...
Dancers bring Saturday night fever back to Wuhan as lockdown relaxed
Wearing masks and keeping about a meter apart, men and women in Wuhan were dancing once again on a Saturday night by the side of the Yangtze river, which winds through the central Chinese city where the novel coronavirus pandemic began. Wuhan's 76-day lockdown ended ...
Crowds at Wuhan clinics fear coronavirus testing could rekindle disease
As Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 pandemic began, revs up a massive testing campaign, some residents crowding the test centres expressed concern on Saturday that the very act of getting tested could expose them to the coronavirus. Safety has become a hot topic ...
Wuhan to test whole city of 11 million after new cases emerge
Wuhan, where the global coronavirus epidemic first started, has ordered officials to prepare to test its entire 11 million population after the central Chinese city reported a handful of new infections for the first time since its lockdown was lifted, according to state media ...
Mike Pompeo blames China for hundreds of thousands of virus deaths
The U.S. Secretary of State has said China is still withholding virus samples needed for global vaccine research.
