A Chinese citizen journalist who was arrested after ‘reporting the truth’ about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan was today jailed for four years. Zhang Zhan, 37, has been found guilty of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ for her criticism of the Wuhan government’s handling of the crisis at the peak of the outbreak. Ms Zhang – … Read more
Nurse falls to their death from Wuhan coronavirus hospital ‘following complaint about lack of PPE to superiors’ A cardiac nurse died after falling from a height at Wuhan Xiehe Hospital in China The medical worker had been arguing with a matron before the fall, reports said They had allegedly complained about a lack of PPE … Read more
China has become used to public confessions on television. But this time the words came from one of the nation’s top officials and had seismic global implications. ‘At first, we assumed the seafood market might have the virus, but now the market is more like a victim,’ said Gao Fu, director of the Centre for … Read more
The first person to test positive for the novel coronavirus from a Wuhan food market where the pandemic likely started was a woman selling live shrimps, according to a document leaked to media. Ms Wei lived in a rented flat less than 500 metres (1,640 feet) from the marketplace and developed a fever on December … Read more