*1 January 2020 - A Hubei provincial health commission official tells a gene sequencing company to stop testing samples and to destroy all existing samples.
*1 January 2020 - A Hubei provincial health commission official tells a gene sequencing company to stop testing samples and to destroy all existing samples.
*3 January - CCP censorship becomes national when the National Health Commission orders researchers to either hand over virus samples to pathogen detection agencies or destroy them.
*3 January - CCP censorship becomes national when the National Health Commission orders researchers to either hand over virus samples to pathogen detection agencies or destroy them.