A World Health Organization (WHO) team sent to Wuhan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has sent out mixed signals regarding the transparency of the probe, Chinese commentators said on Monday
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
China puts on the political show because “the harm from shutting down the factories has caused a worse impact on the ruling regime than that from the virus itself,” Yang added
Eight doctors who tried to warn people of a new viral pneumonia similar to SARS were hauled in by police for questioning in December and accused in state media of “rumor-mongering.”
She talked about her friends and family, how uncomfortable it is to wear a mask, and the deaths of coronavirus patients, as well as poking fun at her nationalist critics who crowded onto Maoist patforms to criticize her
Since state news agency Xinhua first reported that President Xi Jinping would lead “a people’s war” on the epidemic on Jan. 20, police had handled 5,111 cases of “fabricating and deliberately disseminating false and harmful information,” according to a Feb. 21 statement from the ministry of public security
People across China are still waiting for the government to publish figures of the number of people who were asymptomatic when they tested positive for coronavirus