On Jan. 23, 2020, the Chinese government issued a travel ban for all residents of Wuhan, the epicenter of a novel coronavirus outbreak that would come to cause a pandemic.

The Chinese city registered the first cases of the infection and implemented the first lockdown of the population to curb contagion

The residents of Wuhan bitterly remember the more than two-month lockdown they were subjected to five years ago, during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, which China confronted with a strict policy that isolated the country for three years and severely impacted its economy.

Huoshenshan Hospital, Wuhan lockdown, and aftermath of Covid-19 in Wuhan, China, explored in a detailed narrative.

Dr Peter Daszak debarred and stripped of US government funding after manipulating bat coronaviruses ahead of the pandemic

Schrag-Toso, 34, is a first-year postgraduate student at Wuhan University's School of Journalism and Communication. He came to China as a participant in the Luojia Global Summer School Program last year and began his postgraduate studies in September.

HHS determined that a five-year period of debarment for the Manhattan-based nonprofit and Daszak was “necessary to protect the Federal Government’s business interests,” according to a letter sent

The fifth anniversary of the first known death from Covid-19 passed seemingly unnoticed in China Saturday, with no official remembrances in a country where the pandemic is a taboo subject.Unlike other countries,

Passengers board a train at Wuhan Railway Station in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, Jan 20, 2025. As this year's Spring Festival travel rush began on Jan 14, China Railway Wuhan Bureau Group Co.

China is one of the most populous countries in the world, surpassed only by India. By the end of 2023, China boasted a population of about 1.4 billion people. Although this marked the country's second year of population decline,

Wuhan sealed itself off for 76 days, ushering in China's zero-Covid era and foreshadowing the global disruption yet to come.