Opinions differ on the origin of the coronavirus. While some experts are firmly convinced that the pathogen was artificially created, the World

Huang Yanling was named as Patient Zero in early online reports shared widely throughout China in early 2020, when the magnitude of the deadly virus was first coming to light.

Ski coach Li Yue offers classes at Bonski, an indoor ski resort chain, in Wuhan. Li, 26, said the age ranges he sees are from 6 to 40, and are mainly either young people or women from Central China wanting to experience the sport for the first time.

The residents of Wuhan bitterly remember the more than two-month lockdown they were subjected to five years ago, during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, which China confronted with a strict policy that isolated the country for three years and severely impacted its economy.

The Chinese city registered the first cases of the infection and implemented the first lockdown of the population to curb contagion

The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, though it has no conclusive evidence.

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.

Just days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization

It was unclear the extent to which the agency has collected new intelligence on COVID-19's origins and whether that new evidence was used to formulate the latest assessment.

China continues to face challenges from the lingering impacts of its severe COVID-19 lockdowns. Although restrictions ended in 2022, economic and social difficulties persist, driven by public health issues and political narratives controlling the narrative,

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.