Health Why The U.S. Government Stopped Funding A Research Project On Bats And Coronaviruses The project, run by the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, aimed to identify places to monitor, come up with strategies to prevent spillover of the virus and get a jump on creating vaccines and treatments. Nurith Aizenman
World U.S. Pressures China To Close Wet Markets Thought To Be Source Of COVID-19 In a statement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited a link between pathogens that jump from animals to humans and the traditional Chinese markets that sell live fish, meat and wild animals. Scott Neuman
Health U.N. Ambassador Says Inaction By WHO, China, Would Be 'Unforgiveable' Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., defended President Trump's decision to halt funding for the international health body, and said both Beijing and the WHO must show more accountability. Jason Breslow
World China Reports 169 New Coronavirus Cases — Highest In 5 Weeks Officials said Monday that mainland China had 169 new confirmed cases, 98 of which were described as "imported." It was the largest increase since March 6. Scott Neuman
Health Is COVID-19 Changing How We Measure Distance? Liying is from Wuhan, China. She's married to Federico, from Lombardy, Italy. Now in the U.S., they describe the rapid shift in perceptions of the pandemic as it has spread through each country. Gregory Warner Autumn Barnes Derek Arthur
Health China Reports Its First Day With No New COVID-19 Deaths The milestone comes a day before the government is set to lift outbound travel restrictions on people in Wuhan, the country's hardest-hit city. John Ruwitch
Health Chinese Authorities Admit Improper Response To Coronavirus Whistleblower Li Wenliang's warnings about the virus initially got him reprimanded by authorities in Wuhan. Now, six weeks after he died of COVID-19, Chinese investigators say they should have acted differently. Amy Cheng
Health China Reports No New Domestic Cases, But Battles Coronavirus Imported From Abroad The milestone for a country that saw 14,000 new cases in a single day last month was tempered by the new cases imported from abroad — 34 in mainland China and another 25 in Hong Kong. Scott Neuman
Health COVID-19 Has Caused A Shortage Of Face Masks. But They're Surprisingly Hard To Make China makes millions of masks. But ramping up production is tricky. "Making masks is not as easy as you imagine," a pharmaceutical executive in China says. Emily Feng
Health WHO Official Says Coronavirus Containment Remains Possible China's experience shows how the virus can be stopped. But the World Health Organization's Dr. Bruce Aylward said other countries may be drawing the wrong lessons about how China achieved it. Nurith Aizenman Lulu Garcia-Navarro
