Wuhan, China, is the place where the global COVID-19 pandemic originated — and yet, the virus has been held at bay to such a degree that people there have been enjoying boisterous parties, celebrations, and other aspects of normal, pre-pandemic life. China’s Global Times newspaper cautioned the West against casting aspersions on the people in …
If you’re one of the lucky ones whose life has not been directly touched by the coronavirus pandemic — if yours is not among the US families crushed by the more than 213,000 deaths here from COVID-19 since the outbreak began earlier this year — much of what you know about the virus may be …
Photos and video taken at a Wuhan water park just a few days ago show a huge party in the Chinese city that’s been called ground zero of the global coronavirus pandemic. They depict scenes of partygoers not seeming to follow social distancing and face mask guidelines that now dominate life in much of the …
A recent study promoted by a former director of MI6 claimed that the coronavirus pandemic’s real origin is a Wuhan lab, but virologists say the research is flawed and misleading. Experts have categorically opposed the premise that the virus was created by man, saying that all available evidence indicates the virus evolved from animals naturally …
Coronavirus epicenter Wuhan, China, is slowly lifting restrictions related to the pandemic and subsequent lockdown. Citizens in the Hubei region will be allowed to travel once again, though only if they have been cleared as healthy and given a QR code confirming their health status. Residents of Wuhan, Hubei’s capital, can resume travel starting on …
In response to the quarantine implemented in Wuhan, China — the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak that’s now spread around the world — schoolkids there had a brilliant response. They bombarded an app called DingTalk that was meant to help them continue school remotely with bad reviews. Why? Hoping that the flood of reviews would …
It’s easy to forget that the coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak which is dominating headlines around the globe originated in Wuhan, China. Coverage of the virus focused on Wuhan for weeks, but as the disease spread to new regions and began to outpace new infections within China itself, the focus has shifted. Despite waning coverage of the city …
The scary new strain of coronavirus that is spreading across parts of China and beginning to pop up in other areas, including the United States, has resulted in a full lockdown of many Chinese cities. Wuhan, which was the center of the outbreak and is believed to be where the first infections took place, holds …
