Zhu said Zhang’s mother had received a notification of her daughter’s arrest, but was too frightened to talk to journalists following heavy pressure from state security police, and hadn’t publicized the arrest details
In Zhang’s last YouTube video posted on May 13, she had reported on the impact of a huge fall in passenger numbers on the livelihoods of Wuhan’s taxi drivers, as well as loss of employment in the wake of the lockdown among the city’s residents.
Wuhan’s epidemic control center on Monday issued a notice to officials of a city-wide program of nucleic acid tests for millions of residents after a cluster of cases emerged in the Dongmin residential compound in Jianghan district
BenEmbareksaidextensive studiesat the scene would beneededtodetermine the original animal source of COVID-19.China has not yet invited WHO or other external experts to be part of their investigation