WHO Covid investigators praise ‘excellent facilities’ at Wuhan’s animal disease centr

World Health Organization investigators have praised the ‘excellent facilities’ at an animal disease centre in Wuhan as part of their probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.  The 13-strong team of international experts arrived at the Hubei Animal Disease Control and Prevention Center on Tuesday amid a heavy security presence, with a barricade set up … Read more

Chinese citizen journalist, 37, who reported on Wuhan’s coronavirus outbreak is jailed for 4 years

A Chinese citizen journalist who was arrested after ‘reporting the truth’ about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan was today jailed for four years.  Zhang Zhan, 37, has been found guilty of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ for her criticism of the Wuhan government’s handling of the crisis at the peak of the outbreak. Ms Zhang – … Read more

Nurse of Wuhan’s coronavirus hospital falls to death ‘over PPE quarrel’

Nurse falls to their death from Wuhan coronavirus hospital ‘following complaint about lack of PPE to superiors’ A cardiac nurse died after falling from a height at Wuhan Xiehe Hospital in China  The medical worker had been arguing with a matron before the fall, reports said They had allegedly complained about a lack of PPE … Read more

Beijing now admits that coronavirus DIDN’T start in Wuhan’s market… so where DID it come from

China has become used to public confessions on television. But this time the words came from one of the nation’s top officials and had seismic global implications. ‘At first, we assumed the seafood market might have the virus, but now the market is more like a victim,’ said Gao Fu, director of the Centre for … Read more

Wuhan’s largest theme park reopens after closing for nearly four months due to coronavirus

Wuhan’s largest theme park has opened its doors to the public again after being closed for almost four months due to the coronavirus lockdown despite mounting fears of a second outbreak in China. Happy Valley Wuhan welcomed visitors once again on Tuesday as footage and images show groups of tourists enjoying thrilling roller-coaster rides. The … Read more

China raises Wuhan’s Covid-19 death toll by FIFTY per cent to 3,869

China increases Wuhan’s Covid-19 death toll by 50 PER CENT to 3,869, raising suspicions that Beijing has hidden true scale of its coronavirus crisis The global coronavirus pandemic originally emerged in a Wuhan food market Officials from the city government added 1,290 deaths to the tally in the area Said some deaths were missed entirely in the … Read more

The first person to test positive in Wuhan’s market ‘was a woman selling live shrimps’

The first person to test positive for the novel coronavirus from a Wuhan food market where the pandemic likely started was a woman selling live shrimps, according to a document leaked to media. Ms Wei lived in a rented flat less than 500 metres (1,640 feet) from the marketplace and developed a fever on December … Read more