EL MUNDO was the first Spanish-language media to set foot in the Chinese city besieged by the coronavirus and now returns to the scene of the catastrophe. A steel wall with blue-painted panels rises on the sidewalks of a major avenue that five years ago divided the largest seafood and wild species market in the center of China.

The residents of Wuhan bitterly remember the more than two-month lockdown they were subjected to five years ago, during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, which China confronted with a strict policy that isolated the country for three years and severely impacted its economy.

The Chinese city registered the first cases of the infection and implemented the first lockdown of the population to curb contagion

On his first day, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from WHO, a necessary step in putting the health of Americans first.

Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

On Jan. 23, 2020, the Chinese government issued a travel ban for all residents of Wuhan, the epicenter of a novel coronavirus outbreak that would come to cause a pandemic.

Conservatives are pushing Trump to distance himself from global health authorities, which experts believe could undermine future pandemic responses.

More than 400 driverless vehicles are criss-crossing the central Chinese city on an unprecedented scale, enabling the country to gather kilometers of experience. Human cab drivers, meanwhile, are worried about their future.

Passengers are seen at the waiting hall of 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.