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Coronavirus Timeline Leading Up to Wuhan’s Lockdown Shows Clear Signs of Cover-Up
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Coronavirus Timeline Leading Up to Wuhan’s Lockdown Shows Clear Signs of Cover-Up

…or at the very least, a failure to take the virus seriously.

YiCai Global, 2020

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As of mid-March, 2020, COVID-19, the illness caused by a new type of coronavirus first found in the city of Wuhan, China, has infected over 80,000 people with over 3,000 deaths. The Chinese government has been widely criticized for attempts to cover up the outbreak and downplay its severity in the early days. As a result, containment of the coronavirus failed and the exponential spread of the virus overwhelmed China’s health care system. The government was forced into a rare public confrontation with its mistakes and swiftly implemented drastic lockdown measures, which have proven effective. But the question remains: when and what did China cover up, and how could this have gone differently?

Take-Aways

  • ​​​​​Beginning in early December, 2019, doctors in Wuhan became alarmed by strange cases of respiratory pneumonia that showed up in multiple hospitals. 
  • China began sending information regarding the virus to the World Health Organization and other countries in early January 2020, but tried to keep the virus a secret from its own citizens.
  • No new cases of the new coronavirus were reported while annual local and provincial political events were in session. 

About the Authors

Chen Rui and Xu Bingqing are reporters for YiMagazine, a leading financial news platform in China.


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    S. H. getAbstract 4 years ago
    More interesting to know: what is China and other countries doing about this questionable animal markets where the virus originated from? It's only a questions of time until another form of the virus will break out.
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    B. F. 4 years ago
    Student annual or monthly fees?