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

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

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 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,

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.

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.

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.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said that the department made its decision based on evidence uncovered by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.