Tag: Wuhan

Wuhan Residents, Intl Groups Pay Tribute One Year After Chinese Whistleblower Doctor’s Death

Thousands of Chinese netizens and scores of rights groups around the world paid tribute to Chinese whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang over the weekend, as Feb. 7 marked the one-year anniversary of his death. Li, an ophthalmologist, was one of eight whistleblowers who took to Chinese social media late December 2019, warning of an “unknown pneumonia”…


Wuhan Residents, Intl Groups Pay Tribute 1 Year After Chinese Whistleblower Doctor’s Death

Thousands of Chinese netizens and scores of international rights groups paid tribute to Chinese whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang on Feb. 7, marking the one-year anniversary of his death from the virus that he had sought to warn other doctors about. Li, an ophthalmologist, was one of eight whistleblowers who warned on Chinese social media in late…


Wuhan Residents Remember COVID-19 ‘Whistleblower’ Doctor a Year After His Death

WUHAN, China—A year after his death from COVID-19, residents in the Chinese city of Wuhan say they remain grateful to the “whistleblower” doctor who first sounded the alarm about the outbreak before the authorities officially admitted to the second outbreak of a SARS virus. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at a hospital in the city, became…


China in Focus (Feb. 4): China’s AI Giant Loses $1.7B Share Value in a Day

A top Chinese artificial intelligence company lost about $2 billion in market value in a single day. That’s despite huge amounts of government subsidies. A man who survived Wuhan’s virus outbreak is speaking out. He describes a strict lockdown, and what the infection took from him. China’s richest man hasn’t been seen in public for…


China in Focus (Feb. 3): WHO Team Visits Wuhan Virology Lab

A team of WHO experts visit a Wuhan virology lab. That’s a year after the pandemic broke out in the Chinese city. Harsh lockdown measures are taking their toll on Chinese citizens. Reports emerge of increased suicide rates —likely caused by the added pressure and isolation. One-fifth of Chinese sailors stationed on submarines reportedly suffer…


Wuhan Citizens Doubt WHO Virus Origin Probe Will Lead to Answers

As a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) is in Wuhan to investigate the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, city residents expressed concerns that the team would not be able to conduct a full probe given local authorities’ earlier coverup. They also lamented that the team visited a museum…


WHO Team Visits Wuhan Virus Lab at Center of Speculation

WUHAN, China—World Health Organization investigators on Wednesday visited a research center in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus, with one member saying they’d intended to meet key staff and press them on critical issues. The WHO team’s visit to the Wuhan Institute of…


Beijing Angered Over ‘Wu-Han’ T-shirts Ordered by Canadian Diplomat

Communist China has just found a new reason to vent its anger on Canada. This time over a customized T-shirt with the word “Wuhan” in place of “Wu-Tang” across the Wu-Tang Clan logo. Earlier this week, images of the Wuhan T-shirt, which features a stylized “W” that resembles a bat, went viral on Chinese social…


WHO Team Visits Second Wuhan Hospital in Virus Investigation

WUHAN, China—Members of a World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited another Wuhan hospital that had treated early COVID-19 patients on their second full day of work Saturday. Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital was one of the first in the Chinese city to deal with patients in early 2020 suffering from a…


WHO Team in Wuhan Probing COVID-19 Origins Moves out of Quarantine

WUHAN, China—A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic left its quarantine hotel in Wuhan on Thursday to begin field work, two weeks after arriving in the Chinese city where the virus emerged in late 2019. The mission has been plagued by delays, concern over access, and bickering between China and…