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News Articles: Wuhan

Peter Ben Embarek, of the World Health Organization team (right), shakes hands with Liang Wannian, his Chinese counterpart, after a news conference on Tuesday in Wuhan, China. The White House says it has "deep concerns" over how initial findings were communicated.

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  • Health

White House: China Must Release Data From The 'Earliest Days Of The Outbreak'

The White House has "deep concerns" over how initial findings on the coronavirus were communicated and demands China make data available to investigators, national security adviser Jake Sullivan says.

February 14, 2021
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  • Jason Slotkin
Peter Ben Embarek speaks during a news conference to wrap up a visit by an international team of experts from the World Health Organization in the city of Wuhan, China, on Tuesday.

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  • World

WHO: 'Very Unlikely' Coronavirus Leaked From Lab, More Study Needed To Trace Source

The coronavirus is "very unlikely" to have started in a Chinese lab but its path from animals to humans needs further investigation, a World Health Organization team said after visiting Wuhan.

February 09, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng
A woman walks in a park along Yangtze River in Wuhan on Jan. 19, 2021. Residents of the city of 11 million, which was the first epicenter of COVID-19, have conflicting emotions as they reckon with the aftermath of the virus and their 76-day lockdown.

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  • Asia

Wuhan's Lockdown Memories One Year Later: Pride, Anger, Deep Pain

Jan. 23 marks the one-year anniversary of the strict lockdown imposed on the first epicenter of COVID-19. Here's what residents have to say about their experience.

January 23, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
A pro-democracy activist holds placards with the picture of Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan outside the Chinese central government's liaison office, in Hong Kong, Monday. Activists demand the release of Zhang, as well as the 12 Hong Kong activists detained at sea by Chinese authorities.

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  • Asia

U.S. And EU Condemn Jailing Of Lawyer Who Reported On Coronavirus In Wuhan

Zhang Zhan was detained in May after reporting on the coronavirus response in China. Now, she faces years in prison as officials try to silence reports that differ from their own.

December 29, 2020
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  • Reese Oxner

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  • Global Health

11 Original NPR Comics That Brought Joy, Hope And Help During The Pandemic

In 2020, NPR created and published more than a dozen comics for the pandemic — everything from how to explain it to kids to how to help the older people in your life.

December 23, 2020
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  • Malaka Gharib
A scene from <em>76 Days</em>, a new documentary about front-line health workers and patients during the lockdown in Wuhan, China.

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  • Movie Reviews

A Doc About Wuhan's Lockdown Was 'Too Real' For My Wuhan-Born Dad. I'm Glad I Watched

The reviewer's father, who was born in Wuhan, China, and lived there until he was 28, couldn't bear to keep watching. But she did — and was deeply moved by this new documentary film.

December 20, 2020
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  • Laura Gao
From left: Deng Ge is a rap mogul who became a lockdown activist. Poet Sally Wen Mao Mao uses her art to express her anger about how Chinese people are being portrayed in the pandemic. Writer and comic artist Laura Gao, living in the U.S., has a video chat with her grandmother Zhou Nai, who's happy to have a supply of mooncakes, a popular Chinese dessert.

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  • Global Health

How 3 Women From Wuhan Cope With COVID-19: Rap, Poetry And Mooncakes

We interview a rap mogul (turned community volunteer), an author focused on a nine-tailed fox and a grandmother with a sense of humor. They're part of our special report on women facing the pandemic.

October 14, 2020
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  • NPR Special Report
On Jan. 23, workers started building the Huoshenshan hospital for COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China. The photo above was taken on Jan. 30. Construction was done on Feb. 2, and the 1,000-bed hospital opened on Feb. 3. Today it stands empty of patients.

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  • Global Health

Whatever Happened To ... The Instant Hospitals Built For COVID-19 Patients In Wuhan?

Two hospitals were built in a matter of days to house the growing number of patients. Existing facilities were converted to health care centers as well. And now, what happened to them?

September 10, 2020
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  • Joanne Lu
Left: Xi Lu had traveled to Wuhan in January to spend the Lunar New Year with his parents, having not been with his them for the holiday in over seven years. Lin Yang, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University also traveled to Wuhan to visit her parents for the Lunar New Year. Each person found themselves stuck there with the enforcement of lockdown in the city.

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  • Asia

Whatever Happened To ... 2 Of The Visitors Who Got Stuck In Wuhan During The Pandemic

An epidemiologist and a grad school graduate who'd gone to see family reflect on how tough it was to be cut off — and what they learned from their months-long quarantine.

September 04, 2020
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  • Pien Huang

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