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WUHAN, China — Benjamin Wilson, a Louisiana native who lives in the Chinese city where the Covid-19 virus was first identified a year ago, is watching the unfolding crisis back home with ...
On the surface, Wuhan bustles like a city that has never known a paralyzing 76-day lockdown. But the severe measures also came at a huge personal cost to residents, and despite the apparent return ...
Health experts say a new coronavirus with origins in Wuhan, China, that has already killed more than a thousand people and sickened tens of thousands of people could become a pandemic — an ...
Scientists conducting research on novel coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were the first humans to contract COVID-19, according to a new report. “Patients zero” included Ben Hu ...
What the U.S. government does know, he says, is that the Wuhan lab director published studies about manipulating bat coronaviruses in a way that could make them more infectious to humans, and ...
“I will tell you, more and more, we’re hearing the story [that the new coronavirus emerged from a Wuhan lab].” — President Trump, in a news conference, April 15, 2020 This fact check has ...
People wearing protective suits as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus control an access point to the Biandanshan cemetery in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, March 31, 2020.
About 2% of those infected with the Wuhan coronavirus in China have died, but that fatality rate might drop as testing reveals more mild cases.
The death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus has risen to 17, as dozens more cases were reported across China and as far afield as the western United States, sparking fears of a possible pandemic.
People line up for coronavirus testing in Wuhan, China, where the city government has required that all residents be tested after new cases were reported on May 10, 2020.
Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? Several ideas have been put forward from natural-borne in bats, an escape from a lab in Wuhan and others. Here's the murky origin story of the novel coronavirus.
A close analysis of Wuhan’s earliest COVID-19 cases points to a live-animal market as the most likely source of the novel coronavirus, a study argues. Nov. 18, 2021.