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Jailed Chinese journalist, disappeared rights lawyer win Lin Zhao Freedom Award

Dec 10, 2021, at 11:19 pm

Washington: Jailed Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan and disappeared rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng have been awarded the Lin Zhao Freedom Award for their contributions in promoting civil society and advancing the rule of law.

China's treatment towards Uyghur: Netherland's Arnhem city breaks ties with Wuhan

Jul 25, 2021, at 05:18 am

Arnhem in Netherlands has severed sister-city ties with China's Wuhan over Beijing's treatment of Uyghur people.

Report now claims Wuhan virologist who worked on bat coronaviruses tied to military scientists

Jul 02, 2021, at 05:30 am

Wuhan: A top Chinese virologist has been tied to at least two Chinese military scientists who collaborated with her on coronavirus research in the past, including one now listed as deceased, making yet another crucial revelation in the path to trace the origin of the COVID-19 virus which is wreaking havoc across the world.

Sixty percent of US citizens believe that coronavirus was created in Wuhan laboratory: Poll

Jun 24, 2021, at 03:33 pm

Moscow/Sputnik: Sixty percent of US citizens believe that the coronavirus was created in the Wuhan laboratory in China and then leaked, which caused the pandemic, a poll conducted by the Fox News broadcaster reported.

Mike Pompeo says COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan lab

Jun 15, 2021, at 04:59 am

Washington: Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said he believed the coronavirus pandemic originated with a leak out of a lab in Wuhan.

China stung: US Secretary of State Blinken calls WHO's coronavirus origin investigation 'highly deficient'

Jun 15, 2021, at 04:54 am

Washington: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the World Health Organization's first study on the coronavirus pandemic's origins "highly deficient", a statement which is believed to be strong enough to put Beijing on the backfoot.

China: Wuhan gas explosion leaves 12 dead

Jun 13, 2021, at 08:44 pm

Wuhan: A gas explosion in central China's Hubei Province on Sunday morning left at least 12 people dead, media reports said.

Thousands of wild animals were sold at Wuhan markets in months before Covid-19 outbreak: Reports

Jun 11, 2021, at 09:41 pm

Beijing: A new research has found that thousands of animals were sold in markets in the Chinese city of Wuhan just before the COVID-19 outbreak.

US Prez Joe Biden orders US agencies to find source of Covid19 virus in China

May 27, 2021, at 08:06 am

Washington/IBNS: US President Joe Biden on Wednesday directed the country's intelligence agencies to submit a report to him within the next three months finding if the novel coronavirus first surfaced in China from an animal source or emerged from a laboratory accident, an AFP report said.

China: Wuhan lab staff got very sick right before COVID-19 pandemic, claim reports

May 24, 2021, at 03:09 pm

Washington: As per a report by The Wall Street Journal three laboratory researchers in China’s Wuhan city fell seriously ill and sought hospital care in November 2019, right before the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

COVID19: US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan targets China over Wuhan virus data sharing

Feb 26, 2021, at 02:14 am

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan targeted China and expressed concern over the data Beijing has provided to the World Health Organization regarding the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

Washington expresses concern over Beijing's interference in WHO's probe on COVID-19 origin

Feb 16, 2021, at 01:32 am

Washington: Targeting China, the US has expressed deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the COVID-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them.

China targets US for accusing Beijing of interfering in WHO’s COVID-19 probe

Feb 16, 2021, at 01:07 am

Washington: China has reacted sharply to the US comments on Beijing interfering in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) probe into the origins of the coronavirus and said Washington is “severely undermining” the crucial world health body.

There is always room for improvement: China on COVID-19 handling

Jan 22, 2021, at 03:23 am

Beijing: Receiving flak, China has admitted that the nation could have done better and there is always room for betterment in handling the COVID-19 pandemic situation which is believed to have originated from Wuhan city and later spread across the globe.

China refutes allegation of US Deputy Security chief on Coronavirus' leak from Wuhan lab

Jan 05, 2021, at 12:29 am

Beijing/Sputnik: US Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger's allegation that the coronavirus had slipped out of a lab in China's eastern Wuhan city is false, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Monday.

US urges China to release journalist Zhang Zhan

Dec 30, 2020, at 03:34 pm

Washington/UNI: The United States on Tuesday urged the People's Republic of China(PRC) to release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who had documented the initial stages of the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan.

China: Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan jailed over Wuhan reporting

Dec 30, 2020, at 01:35 am

Beijing: China has jailed a citizen journalist for reporting on the Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak, media reports said.

Chinese journalist faces jail for COVID-19 virus outbreak reporting

Nov 17, 2020, at 10:04 pm

Beijing: A Chinese journalist, who was detained in May  for reporting on the coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan, is currently facing up to five years in jail after being formally indicted on charges of spreading false information, media reports said on Monday.

Donald Trump targets China, says US is overtaking them

Oct 18, 2020, at 11:00 pm

Washington: US President Donald Trump recently targeted China and said the nation was overtaking Beijing and it was not even close to them.

Kin of Covid-19 victims accuse Chinese authorities of blocking lawsuits alleging mishandling of the pandemic: Report

Sep 18, 2020, at 06:15 am

Wuhan/IBNS: Several people in Wuhan, the capital city of China’s Hubei province, where the coronavirus first surfaced in December last year, want to sue the local administration for the death of their kin due to mishandling of the health emergency but have found their lawsuits abruptly rejected, face official intimidation and their lawyers pressurised to withdraw from such cases, said an AFP report.

China's Wuhan lab operating 'covert operations' in Pakistan, creating "anthrax-like" pathogens: Report

Jul 26, 2020, at 12:42 am

With the world still battling COVID-19 outbreak,  Pakistan and China have entered a secret three-year deal to expand potential bio-warfare capabilities, including running several research projects related to the deadly agent anthrax, media reports said.

US seeking new alliance to counter China with combined economic, military power: Mike Pompeo

Jul 24, 2020, at 02:40 pm

Washington/Sputnik: The United States aims to form a new alliance with other countries to counter China with combined economic and military force, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a speech.

US State Department memo: Wuhan lab was not operating safely

Jul 19, 2020, at 06:00 am

Washington: The US State Department has released two  partially redacted versions of unclassified memos written by American officials who had visited Wuhan Institute of Virology and expressed concerns over the safety protocols and practices followed by the laboratory in 2018, media reports said.

China agrees to send WHO's team of experts to Beijing to trace COVID19 origin

Jul 08, 2020, at 07:17 pm

Beijing: The Chinese government on Wednesday agreed to send the World Health Organization's (WHO) team of experts to Beijing to trace the origin of the highly infectious coronavirus which has now hit nearly all the countries across the globe.

European Union, US agree to launch dialogue on China, CCP threat: Pompeo

Jun 29, 2020, at 10:01 am

Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the United States and the European Union have agreed to launch a dialogue on China to address the threat of the Chinese Communist Party.

Wuhan Covid-19 whistleblower doctor's widow gives birth to baby boy

Jun 13, 2020, at 01:10 am

Beijing/IBNS: The wife of Dr Li Wenliang, the Wuhan whistleblower,who was the first to raise coronavirus alarm and succumbed to the infection in February, has given birth to a baby boy, according to Chinese media.

US to reopen consulate in Wuhan before end of June - State Department

Jun 10, 2020, at 09:41 am

Washington/Sputnik: The US State Department intends to reopen the consulate in Wuhan, China, on or before the end of June, Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs Mary Elizabeth Taylor said in a notice.

Pakistan surpasses China in Covid-19 cases, tally now over 89,000

Jun 05, 2020, at 03:19 pm

Islamabad/IBNS: With a record 4,688 fresh cases reported in 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday, Pakistan surpassed China, the epicentre of the pandemic Coronavirus, in terms of Covid-19 cases.

Chinese official admits health system weaknesses amid COVID-19 outbreak

May 10, 2020, at 11:01 pm

Beijing/IBNS: In a rare admission, a top Chinese official has admitted that the COVID-19 outbreak exposed weaknesses in the country's public health system.

US has not shared evidence proving coronavirus originated in Wuhan labs: WHO

May 05, 2020, at 05:26 pm

Geneva/IBNS: World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Program chief said on Monday that it has not received any evidence from US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the novel coronavirus could have originated in a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city which first reported the emergence of the deadly virus last year, said media reports.