Wuhan
Delta variant challenges China's costly lockdown strategy
Chinese President Xi Jinping's government is fighting the most serious outbreak in the country since last year's peak in Wuhan. The ruling Communist Party is reviving tactics that shut down China.
Delta variant surge in Wuhan prompts massive city-wide testing
Efficiency over privacy: How trust in the Chinese government helped contain the pandemic
WHO draft report says animals likely source of COVID-19
China announces ban on British politicians, organizations
WHO team rules out lab leak as origin of the coronavirus
Top of The World: A team from the WHO said Tuesday that it is extremely unlikely the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped from animals to humans. And, mass protests challenging a military coup that removed the democratically elected government in Myanmar continue to escalate. Also, Colombia will grant nearly 1 million Venezuelan migrants living in the country temporary protected status for 10 years
One year after lockdown, Wuhan volunteers say the pandemic transformed their lives
The pandemic inspired some Wuhan residents to volunteer and help out. Others sought out a change of scenery after the lockdown lifted. Many still have PTSD, says Wuhan-based restaurateur Wang Fan.
Wuhan — China’s punk capital — slowly returns to its indie music scene
Long before Wuhan gained its global reputation as ground zero for the coronavirus, the city was a hotbed of punk and indie rock.
WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that had early COVID patients
A World Health Organization team visited a hospital on Friday where China says the first COVID-19 patients were treated more than a year ago as part of the experts' long-awaited fact-finding mission on the origins of the coronavirus.
Biden seeks to extend US-Russia arms deal; Controversial tweet from Iran's supreme leader; Honduras set for permanent abortion ban
President Joe Biden seeks a five-year extension with Russia on the New START treaty — the only deal left that limits the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals — with just weeks before it expires on Feb. 5.
Revisiting Wuhan a year after the coronavirus hit the city
More than 3,000 people died of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China. But there hasn’t been a case there since last spring.
WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic origins
A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries.
2020: The year of the primal scream — and other pandemic remedies
The pandemic pushed our collective mental health to the breaking point with unprecedented stress, anxiety and fear. From screaming and baking to writing and singing, here are just some of the ways people around the world coped under lockdown.
China sentences lawyer who reported on outbreak to 4 years
A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a former lawyer who reported on the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak to four years in prison on charges of "picking fights and provoking trouble," one of her lawyers said.
Qingdao tests all 9 million residents for COVID-19
This large-scale testing is possible in China in part due to big data monitoring that’s already set up to keep track of people’s movements in the country.