Built in just days as Covid-19 cases spiked in Wuhan in early 2020, the Huoshenshan Hospital was once celebrated as a symbol of the Chinese city's fight against the virus that first emerged there.

Jan. 20, 2025 marks five years since the CDC reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 on American soil. Here's what you need to know.

Dr Peter Daszak debarred and stripped of US government funding after manipulating bat coronaviruses ahead of the pandemic

In China, the stigma of not having a job can be particularly hard to bear. For fear of judgment, some unemployed people try to hide their situation from

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the US to withdraw from the World Health Organisation. Trump signed the order soon after taking the oath of office on January 20. “That’s a big one,

Trump has long been critical of the WHO and sought to pull out the US from the UN body during his first term Presidency, but his successor Joe Biden reversed Trump's decision.

A CHINESE scientist at the centre of the Covid origins debate is still carrying out “risky” research on coronaviruses, scientists have warned. Shi Zhengli, 60, earned herself the

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.

China is one of the most populous countries in the world, surpassed only by India. By the end of 2023, China boasted a population of about 1.4 billion people. Although this marked the country's second year of population decline,

The fifth anniversary of the first known death from Covid-19 passed seemingly unnoticed in China Saturday, with no official remembrances in a country where the pandemic is a taboo subject.Unlike other countries,

Five years on from the pandemic, China's Wuhan city in central Hubei province is buzzing with life, a far cry from the quiet streets and crowded hospitals during the world's first Covid-19 lockdown on January 23,