Wuhan

Zhang Zhan, a Chinese citizen journalist, has been sentenced 4-year jail term for covering Wuhan's coronavirus outbreak and charged with allegedly spreading misinformation. She has also been accused of giving interviews to foreign media and sharing false information on Wuhan. The 37-year-old lawyer-turned-independent journalist was detained in May and has been on hunger strike for months. Zhang came under the scanner after her livestreams and… read-more

Calling the coronavirus as man-made, Chinese virologist and researcher Dr Li Meng-Yan asserted that the virus originated from a lab in Wuhan. She also told that she has evidences to prove her claim. "The genome sequence is like a human fingerprint. Based on this you can identify these things," she said. Earlier, the researcher had alleged that China was trying to cover-up the virus outbreak.

With blatant disregard for health norms, a music festival was organised in an open air water park of Wuhan city in China. According to a report by CNN, thousands were spotted partying without mask and flouting social distancing. Wuhan city is stated to be the originating point of the coronavirus. Apparently, the Hubei province's capital, Wuhan, has returned to normalcy after reporting no fresh cases since mid-May.