Scientists conducting research on novel coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were the first humans to contract COVID-19, according to a new report. “Patients zero” included Ben Hu ...

“He knew NIH and NIAID money was sent to Wuhan via intermediary EcoHealth ... said Monday he looked forward to interrogating the Brooklyn native about the government’s response to the pandemic.

Mandy Taheri is a Newsweek reporter based in Brooklyn. She joined Newsweek as ... theories that the coronavirus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, and that the U.S. may have been involved ...

The first cases appeared last month in Wuhan, an industrial and transportation hub in central China. Other cases have been reported in the United States, Japan, South Korea and Thailand.

Among the leading theories examined: was it accidentally leaked from a lab in Wuhan or did it come from infected animals in a wet market there? The WHO inquiry was far from comprehensive ...

The epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak was in the city of Wuhan, in central China. Five years on, NPR returns to get a sense of what's changed — and what hasn't. In the last few years ...

WUHAN, China - Five years ago this month, when the Chinese government sealed off the city of Wuhan to slow the spread of COVID-19, the acclaimed author Fang Fang began jotting down notes from ...