lai yun owns a japanese restaurant in wuhan. he lives close to the market, t and befo outbreak, used to buy some of his supplies there. >> ( translated ): hubei is not a province that likes wild animals. tiere is no such thing as bats as med on the internet. certainly not. >> reporter: if true, that would seem to rule out the possibility of any "jump" from ba, at least, in huanan market. chinese scientists have also backed away from assertions they made previously that the market may have been the source of theu meanwhile, beijing's resisted global pressure to allow outsiders access to get to thef bottoms origin. in may, months after that first case and the virus exploded worldwide, president xi jinping endorsed a world health organization-led investigation. reports say a two-person team om the who came in july. but they never went to wuhan, during the entire three-ek trip. to date, there's still been no gidependent probe on the o of covid-19 conducted from china's outbreak epicenter. dr. bruce gellin is president of global immu

but a year later, life in wuhan certainly appears to have returned to normality.rs to be public support for what the chinese authorities did at the time. does that mean that there is little support for zhang zhan? i don't think so. first of all, i think a lot of people are still very angry with what the government did in the very early stage, hiding information and underreporting the cases. chinese society is so repressed, if you speak against the government, you can be can be punished heavily, like what happened to zhang zhan. i think there are a lot of people who are still upset. more than 2 million people in scotland are facing the country's toughest restrictions from friday to try to curb some notably high rates of infection. the new regime will be in place until two weeks before christmas. in several areas, including scotland's largest city, glasgow, non—essential shops and bars, restaurants, hairdressers and visitor attractions, will all have to close. 0ur scotland editor sarah smith reports. maryhill road in glasgow, the city where scotland's infection rate

but a year later, life in wuhan certainly appears to have returned to normality.e public support for what the chinese authorities did at the time. does that mean that there is little support for zhang zhan?|j that mean that there is little support for zhang zhan? i don't think so. first of all, i think people are still very angry with the government and what they did in the early stages, hiding information and under reporting cases. chinese society is still repressed and if you speak against the government can be can be punished heavily. that is what happened to zhang zhan. i think there are a lot of people who are still upset. what you see on the surface does not necessarily reflect what people actually think. 0k, thank you very much indeed for speaking to us this evening. thank you for having me. britain's main opposition labour party has reinstated its former leader, jeremy corbyn. he was suspended last month over his reaction to a report on anti—semitism within the party, when he said the scale of the problem had been "overstated". 0ur political correspondent

in wuhan china. all the of the narrative that we told that it didn't emerge until january when we knew it was known for earlier in the fall of. >> right. >> 2019, that it emerged accidentally in a wet market and we know that that narrative has been-- i think there's a concensus that it came out of a lab, but whether it was accidental or whatever the narrative goes, why do you-- what was their attitude about. why did they allow direct flights into sfo and lax after you couldn't go from wuhan and anywhere else in china. forget about the origins and whether it was accidental or-- and what was the mindset that destroyed the western economy in a way that we never thought it would be possible? >> as you say, this virus was unique. was it engineered? we still can't say scientifically with great empirical evidence or judgment that what it was. was it natural? was it manmade? but we do know for a fact that whether accidental or engineered, that communist chinese government knew for months that it was transmis

it was an outbreak in wuhan.t that stage, when you've got a few thousand cases, it could be a blip, it could go away. >> why did you think that it would just be a china bug instead of a world wide pandemic initially? >> because we've often seen small outbreaks of different viruses that come and disappear. >> but this virus wasn't disappearing. it was multiplying, exponenti exponentially. >> when i heard about wuhan, i didn't pay that much attention to it until it was clear that it was escalating. >> professor peter pyatt has spent his long career infectious diseases. he and a colleague discovered ebola. he was a pioneer in the battle against hiv and aids. >> for years i was saying we have to be prepared for the next, the big one, an epidemic of a new virus that is transmitted airborne, respiratory transmitted and we are not prepared for it. i saw in wuhan there were far more cases than we had had in total with sars and then i thought we were in trouble. >> it's transmit sod easily. you've got asymptomatic transmi

it was an outbreak in wuhan. and at that stage, when you've got a few thousand cases, it could be a blip. it could go away. >> why did you think that it would just be a china bug, instead of a worldwide pandemic, initially? >> because we've often seen small outbreaks of different viruses, that come and disappear. >> reporter: but this virus wasn't disappearing. it was multiplying, exponentially. >> when i heard about wuhan, i didn't pay that much attention to it, until it was clear that it was escalating. >> reporter: professor peter has spent his long and celebrated career fighting infectious diseases. he and a colleague discovered ebola in the 1970s. pyatt was a -- in the battle against hiv and aids. >> for years, i was we have to be prepared for the next, big one. a virus that is transmitted airborne, respiratory transmitted, and we are not prepared for it. but it was respiratory transmitted. in wuhan, see far more cases than, in total, we had with sars. and then, i thought we were in trouble. >> you have got

that the world health organization was first alerted to a mysterious viral pneumonia circulating in wuhan, china. two weeks later the genetic sequence of the virus was shared publicly and that kick started one of the great medical races the world has ever seen. pfizer partnered with biontech in march and eight months later and it is now 90% effective. before this the fastest a vaccine was developed is four years and that was for mumps in 1967 pfizer's vaccine still needs t complete its follow-up and file with the fda through the regulatory review process, we should see mor details on the vaccine, does it protect against severe disease

. >> the chinese city of wuhan locked down, more than 600 infected. and it's spreading fast. fear it could spread further. >> it was over there, in china, where frankly they've had a lot of outbreaks over the years. >> china has reported 136 cases of the bird flu. >> emergence of the h-10 strain follows that of the fatal h-7 and 9 strain last year. >> in china's desperate bid to control the latest bird flu virus. >> but this was no bird flu. and the world soon began to take notice. penicillin was discovered here in 1928.

we know this started in wuhan as a point outbreak.we had cases in 180 countries. this is not a virus that's going to stay contained. it's going to continue to move around unless we can tamp it down. >> the covax has a very specific plan to end the pandemic. >> the goal of this is to have 2 billion doses available by the end of 2021 of which a billion doses would go to high income and upper middle income countries and a billion doses to low and lower middle income countries. >> covax will distribute those initial 2 billion doses to the people most likely to spread the virus. >> so the idea would be to try to vaccinate health care workers across the world. that's a relatively small p percentage of the population. >> there's always been a race for making vaccines or drugs for emerging diseases and other things. but to compress that in a matter of a year or two years, that's what's really unprecedented. >> adar is the ceo of the serum institute, the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world. the company was founded by adar's father. today

that was wuhan.now, mark china's government and the since march notions the disease came elsewhere. on march 12th the foreign ministry spokesman in a tweet said that coronavirus patient zero was in the united states. that's an official statement of the chinese government saying that the coronavirus started here and then that spokesman said or insinuated that the u.s. army brought the disease to wuhan of course that is completely false as well everybody from the european to facebook to twitter takes china very seriously. the theory of opening up china wasng that when they had a big capitalist economy they would embrace western notions of freedom instead we seem to be embracing chinese notions of free speech where if you dispute the official version, twitter and facebook will abolish you. why are we getting more chinese than china is getting western? >> well, a couple things. first of all, silicon valley is leftist. but, also, china and peoplee in silicon valley know and the second reasonable is people

>>well china still refusing to let international researchers into wuhan preventing them from learning more about the source of the virus. for all of your coronavirus updates and details on new restrictions right here in the bay area and testing sites make sure you head over to our website we have it all the sudden kron 4 dot com. we have a comprehensive list of restrictions and closures as all listed by county, including which tear each county is in right now so if you want to stay updated just head over to our website. it's all listed for you there. >>all right coming up next on the kron 00:00am morning news, blasting off into space and history how sunday's mission between nasa and space x broke barriers that story coming up next. there's no bad time to start at amazon... ♪ i like the flexibility. it also allows for picking up shifts. safety comes first, speed comes second. safety. safety. safety. we're making sure that somebody is getting their very important items. it makes me very happy. ♪ >>4 astronauts are up in space the successful liftoff of a manned mission to the internation

a parade in wuhan attracting thousands of revellers. confirmed cases here are now ultra low.d it's a similar story in the capital, beijing. china's aggressive strategy against the virus meaning events like this can still take place. translation: i'm not afraid because china's antivirus measures are very good now. also, everyone has to show their health kit app and all kinds of checks to be able to get in. despite that, some are still a little anxious. translation: in fact, i'm a little scared but this is a rare chance to take part in a festival like this, so i decided to take the risk of coming here to check it out. translation: to be honest, i am very scared. i haven't even taken off my mask underneath this thing. with low numbers of confirmed cases in hong kong, the authorities eased social distancing measures. ba rs, restau ra nts a nd clu bs were allowed open until 2am, and they could increase their seating capacity to 75%. the police, however, were still on hand to remind party—goers to avoid gathering or crowding in one area. we have to protect ourself. of course, it's

and despite coronavirus fears, the people of beijing and wuhan flock to theme parks to celebrate halloweenhello and welcome. england is to face a new month—long lockdown across the nation, starting on thursday. under the lockdown, restaurants and pubs will close, but takeaways and deliveries will be allowed. all non—essential retail will also close, but supermarkets are to stay open. mixing with other households inside homes or in private gardens will be banned — except for childcare and other forms of support. but unlike the first lockdown in march and april, schools, colleges and universities will stay open, while travel will be discouraged, except for work. here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. misery — the prime minister's own prediction of what a return to lockdown would feel like. the step he never wanted to take, the instruction again for england to close its doors. reality kicking in. we've got to be humble in the face of nature. and in this country, alas, as across much of europe, the virus is spreading even faster than the reasonable worst—case scenario. and so now is th

the first place it showed up was wuhan, china.arket, where you have live animals, you sell food, cooked and uncooked. it is really a challenge in those places because you have mixing of people, animals, all the diseases that they bring with them. is a place fort these kind of diseases to emerge. the interesting thing is this is in the family of coronavirus. researchers around the world -- coronavirus is, by the way, is a family of viruses from the .ommon cold, for sars the first we had several years ago. we've been working on a vaccine for coronavirus for many, many, many years. what that means is we knew that the spiky thing, that blue thing that looks like sonic the hedgehog, that spiky thing was a part of the virus that your body reacted to. thingsthe most important is to figure out what part of the virus makes your body react. so they already knew that. they also have been doing a lot of work with sars virus. a lot of people have kind of shelved their research projects. when they saw the sars virus emerging, everybody dusted o

>>china is refusing to let international researchers into wuhan preventing them from learning more abouthe source of the virus. other news in the bay area tonight we're 30 still searching for information about a body found new sutro baths this morning, san francisco fire department called to the bouts after a report of a body found in the water just before 9 o'clock this morning. the coast guard also called to that scene at the time of the call we're told there were high surf rapid set waves. no other details have been released on the victim at this time. anyone with information is urged to call police a day on the water quickly turning into a rescue operation to try and save them for one family, san francisco fire says that just before 3 o'clock this afternoon a boat that family was on started to take on water capsized then saying just west of alcatraz island. crews from the u.s. coast guard and sfpd marine team responding to that scene to people quickly rescued by another boat, a 3rd person, a man found a short time later on shore. the trio checked out by medics and we're told are expe

and then underestimated or under call decimated wuhan.aveled all over the world, but not to china. spreading death, economic stability. >> laura: but dr. fauci -- dr. grace -- you have written about this before. the asymptomatic carriers never drive pandemics. they don't drive pandemics bread, correct? >> correct. i don't know whether you can trust the source that we only have 300 and change out of 10 million. former commissioner dr. scott gottlieb is now saying that americans should try better masks because the cotton ones are good enough. protection -- better protection than a surgery mask. they will generally offer more protection. even a good cloth mask may only be 30% effective. didn't the cdc have the study up on its website until june about influenza? we know that masks don't work. so why would they work now? >> right, and the influence of the coronavirus are roughly the same size. it's much, much more than that. you know, the reason scott gottlieb is saying that just because surgical masks we have encouraged people to wear have do

look at how china is determined to punish those who first reported the outbreak of coronavirus in wuhan

virus, members of his administration have referred to it as wuhan flu. given your extensive experience at the fbi, do you think the fbi and justice department are doing enough to address hate crimes in our country, including against asian americans and specific, do you know of any prosecution by the doj on any of these hate crimes? >> i'm not aware of recent prosecutions of hate crimes. again, i don't have access to all of the inform agation has, can't speak to whether they are doing that work or not. seems those incidents just from what i in open source reporting seem to be on the rise, i suspect the bureau and doj should look at those things closely. >> i sure hope so, so far i don't know of anything coming down on these types of cases. i believe my time is up, thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. mccabe. >> thank you, senator. i think we have senator hawley on the line. brief inquiry. mr. mccabe, what is defensive briefing? >> a defensive briefing is typically when we reach out to an individual who we think might be the subject of some sort of mali

everything about the wuhan coronavirus proved donald trump right.really is our main global adversary. the chinese government really does want to take over the world. meanwhile, the fact we sent our manufacturing base abroad really has weakened us. badly. the most powerful nation on earth no matte longer makes antibiotics. maybe we are not as powerful as we think. all of that is now very obvious after the pandemic, but donald trump called it. you would think voters would reward him for that. you would think the riots would have increased their support for him. an awful lot of people voted for donald trump precisely to avoid a moment like the one we are now in. none of this arrive suddenly. we saw it coming. social cohesion in america has been eroding for decades. people sense that. it made them nervous. it should make them nervous. donald trump seem like insurance against the consequences of that. the court appeal of trump was if things ever started to fall apart, he would defend you. yes, he was loud and crude, most bodyguards are. only a man like d

the discovery earlier this year of an unknown virus in wuhan would turn out to be a game changer.ource of the coronavirus pandemic was traced to wildlife sold at markets for food. this led the chinese national people's congress to adopt strict regulations against wildlife trades. authorities also upgraded the yellow-breasted bunting's status as a protected species, putting it on par with the giant panda. chan has been working hard to spread the word across southn china using posters, pamphlets and video documentaries. >> china has, to top the wildlife market, market and consumption. i would say that that may -- of course that may help to reduce the pressure on the yellow-breasted bunting. i think that gradually, slowly and slowly we will change the mindset of people. >> with me in the studio is our colleague who made that report. thank you for joining us today. >> i'm happy to be here. >> now, one of the main factors that have pushed the yellow-breasted bunting to the brink of extension is poaching. finally china has taken action. tell us, what impact has this had on the situation

the virus was first identified in the central city of wuhan last december. the w.h.o.'chief scientist welcomed the news about astrazeneca, but emphasized other companies should continue their work so that a variety of vaccines will be available. >>> in the u.s., a key government agency has given president-elect joe biden formal approval to begin his transition to the white house. the announcement by the u.s. general services administration unlocks funding for the incoming administration. it also allows biden and vice president-elect kamala harris access to briefings. in a tweet, president trump said gsa administrator emily murphy and her team should do what needs to be done with regards to initial protocols. he said he had instructed officials in his administration to do the same. the gsa announcement came shortly after officials in michigan certified biden as the winner of the battleground state in the november 3rd election.n nominees for top posts, and his picks appear to reflect a campaign promise to create a more diverse administration. biden has chosen anthony blin

. >> reporter: in december 2019, in wuhan, china, the virus was spreading. >> a newly identified deadly virus from china. >> 45 cases have been reported in china including 2 deaths. >> reporter: the chinese government swooped in with all its authoritarian might but china did something else few noticed. it made a call for help written in genetic code >> you can identify a virus exactly on that kind of code. >> reporter: chinese researchers quickly cracked the code and published it this is the code china published online this is sars co-v-2. 30,000 characters. the exact formula for what's been disrupting all of our lives and killed more than a million people professor robin shattock fed that code into a computer and came up with a prototype vaccine within weeks, nearly all the work since then has been testing. >> so this is the original prototype vaccine. >> reporter: the tube containing the secret to potentially saving millions wasn't even labeled. >> essentially the vaccine design has not changed. >> reporter: so it's more or less the same? what you had in the very beginning is what we

chinese officials have said the outbreak began here, wuhan seafood market in mid december and despite w.h.o. investigation into the virus origins china has insisted it's as transparent as possible over the coronavirus. sometime now in order to shift the blame she said some u.s. politicians have constantly used the pandemic and other issues as a pretext to smear and demonize china and send lies and misinformation about china and this will of course seriously mislead citizens of the united states and some other western countries understanding of the truth of china's fight against the epidemic. china's foreign ministry and holt officials are not responded to our requests for comment. this disease has killed nearly 1.5 million people. about a fifth of known deaths in america. these documents are rare, clear, an open window into what china knew all along, trying to appear in control, whoil a local oile outbreak turned into a pandemic. >> how rare is it to get this kind of window into china's response to a crisis of this magnitude? >> this sort of detail is rare. these are details china cho

wuhan, they had the wuhan province, they kept it in. but it got out to europe, to the u.s.nd all over the world. they could have -- think of what they've done to us. forget about their trade deal with your corn, okay? on the bigger picture, you know, we did the great trade deal. but the ink wasn't even dry and all of a sudden we got hit by this damn plague. and we won't forget it. we're not forgetting it. we can never forget it. the biden plan will turn america into a prison state, locking you down while letting the far left rioters roam free to loot and burn. think of it. you can't go to church, you can't go to school, you can't do anything, you have to stay in your house but if you're a looter, anarchist, a rioter, you can run down the streets of portland, you can run down the streets of anywhere you want and there you have no problems. in fact, we got to a point because we were shut out from having protests, right, rallies. so they said, well, you can't have a rally, sir, you're not allowed to have anything political. i said what can you do? the only thing you're allowed

tomorrow marks one year since the first reported case in wuhan, china, the pangolin is an endangerede. they may have been hunted to the verge of extinction, but our debora patta shows us there is a front line face in south africa to save this fascinating creature. >> reporter: there are millions of years old, solitary, usually nocturnal, and completely harmless. but here in africa, hundreds of thousands are poached every year, almost to extinction. >> if you take rhino, elephant ivory, perlemoen, combine it all together, multiply it, pangolins exceed that. >> reporter: pangolins are coveted for their scales which are used in dozens of traditional chinese medicines under the false belief they have healing powers. they have no natural enemies in the wild, their only predator, humans. conservati conservationist ray jansen works with police as they move in on a group of poachers. caught red handed. >> looks like a large male. >> reporter: they thought jansen was a wildlife trafficker who wanted to buy their pangolin. instead, the six men were booked into a nearby police station. they fac

. >> reporter: in december 2019 in wuhan, china, the virus was spreading. >> a newly identified virus from china. >> the 45 cases have been reported in china including two deaths. >> reporter: the chinese government swooped in with all of its authoritarian might china did something else few knee it issed. it made a call for help written in genetic code. chinese researchers quickly cracked the code and published it this is the code china published online this is sars cov2, a disrupter that's shattered our lives it was sfed into the computer and came up with a vaccine in weeks. nearly all the work since then has been testing the tube containing the secret to potentially saving millions wasn't even labeled. >> essentially the vaccine design has not changed. >> so it's more or less the same what you had in the very beginning is what we still have now. >> absolutely. >> reporter: the greatest scientific race of our lifetimes is nearly over the next step just as difficult, a rapid worldwide distribution that's never been done before. richard engel, nbc news, london. >>> at least seven peopl

what are we -- the weather sliding through wuhan. 16 for shanghai. somewhat drier further north.oss the korean peninsula. largely dry into japan. one are two offshore showers coming into the western side as we go on through thursday. possibility of wintry mix. essentially, starting to dry up over the next couple of days. dry because a good part of indochina. northern part of the philippines , a rash of showers across central and southern parts of the philippines. fairly active showers across malaysia into indonesia. very active weather into southern parts of india over the next day. here comes the cyclone. in the process of intensifying 100 20 kilometers per hour. heavy rain over the next couple of days. we are expecting widespread flooding particularly around those low-lying areas. the warnings extend into here as we go through thursday. or rain for friday. -- more rain for friday. ♪ >> france once had a vast empire spanning several continents. but by the 1940's, the french were forced confront reality and demands for independence. in the first part of a new documentary series,

before 2003 beginning with new approaches for to have the vaccine so as soon as we got in infection in wuhansix days, we were able to have the genomes of these viruses and in 60 days in china we were able to get clinical trials and the other thing that was really interesting, a recommendation, actually, to bring together in lots of cases phase two and phase three and the other reason why we got the vaccine quickly, it was like an implementation or recommendation for all companies that got to the third phase to start production and lots of countries put the none into it so it's why we hopefully we get, almost in a year, we'll get the vaccinationstein and it's a big victory not just for these companies for -- but for humanity to get these kinds of results in one year. >> there are four failses of testing, i understand. answer the question that china and russia have aproved some vaccines without waiting for the phase three results. is that a risk worst taking? >> the phase three result is the largest part of the trial and has the most amount of pipe in it. phase one and two is mostly focused on

they stopped it at the wuhan province. they stopped it. but it came to us and it came to europe and it went to 188 countries are suffering. i mean, look at what china -- just think of it. look at what china has done to the world. look at you with the masks and everything else. look at what china -- today you should wear them anyway, probably. look at what china -- look at what china has done to the world. and we're not forgetting it. we're not forgetting it. and the reason they ordered the corn and the reason -- you know why? because they now figured out we're going to win. we're going to win. that's the only reason. [ cheering and applause ] >> and if biden ever won, china will own the united states of america. because he has no clue. he's not a smart person. and a in prime time he wasn't a smart person. he was always known as the dummy. he was always known as a dummy. and that was 20, 25 years ago. and now he's a dummy and-a-half. biden will trap you in a dark -- remember during the debate, it will be a dark winter. oh, how inspiring, ho

it chronicles the first 76 days of lockdown in wuhan during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemicrimarily focusing on geopolitics, numbers. with my film, we're really trying to bring viewers in hospital to witness and to watch how the human experience has been in this pandemic. documentaries racing to address current events have been popular, but so have films that deal with history. among them was possible oscar nominee crip camp. the film focuses on a summer camp in upstate new york catered specifically to disabled teens. crip camp shows how that experience had a positive impact on their lives, and how the sense of community at the camp fed into the american disability rights movement of the ‘705. we will no longer allow the government to oppress disabled individuals. and i would appreciate it if you would stop shaking your head in agreement when i don't think you understand what we are talking about. a documentary that premiered at the largely virtual toronto international film festival this year was mlk/fbi, and it unveiled the inner workings of fbi director j edgar hoover's c

but it is the pandemic which emerge from the chinese city of wuhan last year but has come to shape thepresidential campaign. trump: because of our relentless efforts, the recovery rate right now on covid, or the china virus, the china plague, is 99.7%. [applause] trump: and i'm here. [applause] >> he waved the white flag of surrender. i will never surrender, we are going to beat this virus, we are going to get it under control. the first step to beating this virus is beating donald trump. host: first of our correspondence is katrina in shanghai. katrina, this has been one of the most complicated, perhaps the most coveted relationship that donald trump has with a foreign power, massive chinese investment, yet there was this trade war. criticism of its role in hong kong. what is china thinking when it comes down to the elections now? is it that they might be better off with biden? reporter: well, in terms of the trump administration, it is a really tough time of the chinese government the past four years. it started out well with trump really heaping praise on president xi, and it quickl

fa forward to this year, early 2020, late january, we had a sourcing trip to asia starng in wuhan cna we saw firsthand the beginning of the global pandemic this inspired us to how we might serve to manufacturing ppe supplies after all we he filled so quickly we foundhe products that came fromm china the first product that we launched in our factory and much of our equipment here has the bottle hand sanitizer in kansas. we found we would have to buy those materials from china once again. the us no longer has any real small bott manufacturing capabilities we had to go to china to get theco botes. we cld continue to create opportunities for manufacturing jobs now we are in new excitingndeavor very safe disinfectant called hydrochloric acid which is the safest for humans and pets in the environment it goes up against all the viruses inuding covid-19. so we partnered with another kansas company and with their operations backgund we are making preparations to make this in oubo facto. we have been doing that now for some time. our goal is to once again bring in more production jobs, even in

the woman, a 24—year—old student from wuhan, has recovered and invited her rescuer to dinner next weekendrking together for a decade. that is it for now. thank you very much for watching. hello. we're all going to be sitting under a fairly hefty whack of cloud in the next few days. that cloud is being pulled in from the atlantic and it comes along with some very mild air. if it does thin and break in a few spots, which it may do with a little bit of help from the hills, we could see our temperatures in eastern regions shooting up today. but as we continue to pull in the south—westerly air into western scotland, there's going to be a lot of moisture around. here, some fairly relentless rain and across the hills, the totals keep adding up. i think we'll see perhaps some rain setting in from western wales and parts of northern ireland with the higher ground, especially through the day as well. a lot of cloud around, as i said, but some sheltered eastern spots will see the sun coming out and the temperatures could shoot up to 16, even 17 degrees, but widely, we're in the mid—teens on tuesday,

much discussion about whether the who was too close to china at the beginning of all of this, when wuhan covid—i9 spread. whether you told the truth, whether you aided and abetted the chinese covering up what was happening in december, january, the beginning of all of this. you've had time to reflect now. do you believe the who is now being transparent about what happened ? and are we being told exactly what happened ? we are very straight and it's, in fact, characteristic of all of those 2,000—odd people who work in the geneva part of who, and the many other thousands who work with other parts of who. we don't hide anything from anyone. we operate under the rules that are given to us. and i don't believe that we've been excessively kind to or excessively praising of any country or any community. we do what we have to do. at the same time, we can't be rude to people because, in international life, that's not how you work. but right since the very beginning, when we first found out about this, at the very end of december last year, we've been consistent. we've discussed it amongst ourselv

a look at how china is pursuing the journalists who first reported the outbreak of coronavirus in wuhan

in december 2019, while most of the world was celebrating the holidays, in the industrial city of wuhanly identified deadly virus from china. >> the 45 cases have been reported in china, including two deaths. >> the chinese city of wuhan

and despite coronavirus fears, the people of beijing and wuhan