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Chinese COVID whistleblower sentenced to 4 more years in jail, group says

Zhang Zhan, the Chinese journalist who exposed early COVID-19 conditions in Wuhan, has been sentenced to four more years in prison for her reporting, Reporters Without Borders says.

Pro-democracy supporters protest to urge for the release of 12 Hong Kong activists arrested as they reportedly sailed to Taiwan for political asylum and citizen journalist Zhang Zhan outside China's Liaison Office, in Hong Kong, China December 28, 2020.
 SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (illustrative).

Who were the first people to catch COVID-19? - report

 A man holds boxes from the first shipment of Pfizer's oral COVID medicine arrives at Teva's storage facility.

WHO, advisors urge China to release all COVID-related data after new research

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Crowds at Wuhan clinics fear coronavirus testing could rekindle disease

Wuhan health authorities sprang back into action after confirming last weekend the central Chinese city's first cluster of new infections since it was released from virtual lockdown on April 8.

Residents wearing face masks queue for nucleic acid testings in Wuhan, the Chinese city hit hardest by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, Hubei province, China May 16, 2020

China's Wuhan reports first coronavirus cluster since lifting lockdown

Eleven new cases in Shulan were confirmed on May 9, all of them members of her family or people who came into contact with her or family members.

A resident wearing a face mask dances at a blocked residential area after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 11, 2020

El Al to operate 60 cargo flights from Wuhan to European destinations

The international airport in Wuhan reopened in early April after two months of closure, serving the Hubei province capital where the COVID-19 outbreak first originated.

El Al will operate 60 humanitarian cargo flights from the Chinese city of Wuhan

Trump 'confident' coronavirus could have originated in Wuhan lab

Trump also said on Thursday it was possible that China either could not stop the spread of the coronavirus or let it spread.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the U.S response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic during an address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 11, 2020

China's Hubei, where coronavirus began, eases lockdown

Hubei is the last province to lower its provincial emergency response level, a major milestone in China's fight against the pandemic.

A resident wearing a face mask dances at a blocked residential area after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 11, 2020

Coronavirus was 'not manmade or genetically modified' - US spy agency

The statement sharply contradicted conspiracy theories claiming the new coronavirus had been developed by Chinese scientists in a government biological weapons laboratory from which it then escaped.

A vendor works at a wet market in China

Pompeo: US still worried about China's labs amid coronavirus pandemic

"I can tell you there were real concerns about the labs inside of China," Pompeo said.

Secretary Mike Pompeo in Jerusalem

Coronavirus: Chinese media releases footage of Wuhan virology lab

The facility was designed to only allow air to flow into the facility, rather than out, in order to prevent any leaks.

A coronavirus testing facility in Wuhan, China.

An Arabic TV program in China suggests coronavirus originated in US

The contention contradicts widespread international and scientific consensus that the virus started in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

A coronavirus testing facility in Wuhan, China.

Coronavirus: Wuhan death toll rises 50%, China's data in doubt

Reflecting the additional deaths in Wuhan, China revised up its national death toll later on Friday to 4,632.

A resident wearing a face mask dances at a blocked residential area after the lockdown was lifted in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and China's epicentre of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, April 11, 2020