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

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

Built in just days as Covid-19 cases spiked in Wuhan in early 2020, the Huoshenshan Hospital was once celebrated as a symbol of the Chinese city's fight against the virus that first emerged there.

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

Jan. 20, 2025, marks five years since the CDC reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 on American soil.

Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) says American tax dollars are funding cruel and unnecessary animal experiments on U.S. soil and abroad. “We also saw that there was animal testing taking place in the Wuhan lab and we were funding these experiments and it’s still taking place in other countries that have subpar safety conditions.

The US Department of Health and Human Services has cut off all funding and formally debarred EcoHealth Alliance Inc. and its former president, Peter Daszak, for five years following scrutiny over its involvement in virus research in Wuhan,

More than 400 driverless vehicles are criss-crossing the central Chinese city on an unprecedented scale, enabling the country to gather kilometers of experience. Human cab drivers, meanwhile, are worried about their future.

Whether Covid-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested mystery.

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.

On January 23, 2020, with the then-unknown virus spreading, Wuhan sealed itself off for 76 days, ushering in China's zero-Covid era of strict travel and health controls and foreshadowing the global disruption yet to come.