A Chinese citizen journalist who uploaded coronavirus reports from Wuhan onto social media to criticise the city’s handling of the outbreak has been arrested, according to reports. The Shanghai resident Zhang Zhan, reportedly to be 40, was allegedly removed by police on Friday on suspicion of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’, a broad-brush charge often … Read more
Satellite data suggests coronavirus could have hit China in the SUMMER: Dramatic traffic increase was spotted at Wuhan hospitals amid surge in internet searches for Covid-19 symptoms Some hospital traffic increased by up to 90 per cent between 2018 and 2019 A leading Harvard researcher said the traffic increases began in ‘late summer’ Wuhan’s internet … Read more
Wuhan wet market was NOT the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese authorities claim – but it may have been the site of a ‘super-spreader’ event Evidence shows the virus originated in bats but not how it jumped to humans Researchers originally thought the virus started in the 116 acre wet food market This has … Read more
Australian singer Guy Sebastian has admitted that he’s not sure if he ate bat or not, during his trip to Wuhan, China, late last year. Speaking to Hit’s Hughesy and Ed on Friday, the 38-year-old said that he ate ‘the most rancid stuff’ while overseas. It comes after Guy was forced to deny that he was Australia’s ‘patient … Read more
Wuhan Virology institute director says she has three strains of coronavirus on site but none of them match COVID-19 – but will anyone believe her? Institute director Wang Yanyi said the facility has three strains of the viruses She went on to say that none of the strains they had matched that of Covid-19 Comes … Read more
The construction of the Chinese laboratory at the centre of mounting suspicion over the source of the Covid-19 pandemic was signed off by the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier – despite warnings by French intelligence services. Mr Barnier – currently embroiled in acrimonious negotiations with the UK over a post-Brexit trade deal – was … Read more
The Chinese city of Wuhan has banned the eating of wild animals, a practice believed to have caused the coronavirus pandemic. The new policy went into effect on May 13 and will stay in place for five years, according to a notice released by the Wuhan government today. Experts in China said in January that … Read more
China’s claims that the pandemic emerged from a wild animal market in Wuhan last December have been challenged by a landmark scientific study. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that analysis of the coronavirus by specialist biologists suggests that all available data shows it was taken into the market by someone already carrying the disease. … Read more
French athletes believe they caught coronavirus at the World Military Games in Wuhan in October, 20 days before the first recorded case in China. It comes after it was revealed that Frenchman Amirouche Hammar, 43, had been infected with COVID-19 outside Paris as early as December. The hospital where Hammar was treated for chest pains … Read more
A Chinese journalist who went missing for nearly two months after streaming videos from Wuhan has reappeared, and claims he was detained and forcibly quarantined by police. Li Zehua was one of three Chinese journalists reporting from Wuhan’s frontlines during its coronavirus epidemic who mysteriously disappeared. A former employee of state broadcaster CCTV, the 25 year … Read more