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*30 December - Wuhan ophthalmologist [[Dr. Li Wenliang]] shares information on WeChat about the new SARS-like virus.<ref>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30382-2/fulltext</ref> He is called in by the Chinese Communist Security Police for questioning shortly afterward.  Ai Fen, a top director at Wuhan Central Hospital, posts information on WeChat about the new virus. She was reprimanded for doing so and ordered not to spread information about it.

*30 December - Wuhan ophthalmologist [[Dr. Li Wenliang]] shares information on WeChat about the new SARS-like virus.<ref>https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30382-2/fulltext</ref> He is called in by the Chinese Communist Security Police for questioning shortly afterward.  Ai Fen, a top director at Wuhan Central Hospital, posts information on WeChat about the new virus. She was reprimanded for doing so and ordered not to spread information about it.

:*Health officials issued a document (pdf) forbidding all medical institutes or individuals from disclosing any information regarding the new disease.<ref>https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/%E5%85%B3%E4%BA%8E%E5%81%9A%E5%A5%BD%E4%B8%8D%E6%98%8E%E5%8E%9F%E5%9B%A0%E8%82%BA%E7%82%8E%E6%95%91%E6%B2%BB%E5%B7%A5%E4%BD%9C%E7%9A%84%E7%B4%A7%E6%80%A5%E9%80%9A%E7%9F%A5.pdf</ref>

:*Health officials issued a document (pdf) forbidding all medical institutes or individuals from disclosing any information regarding the new disease.<ref>https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/%E5%85%B3%E4%BA%8E%E5%81%9A%E5%A5%BD%E4%B8%8D%E6%98%8E%E5%8E%9F%E5%9B%A0%E8%82%BA%E7%82%8E%E6%95%91%E6%B2%BB%E5%B7%A5%E4%BD%9C%E7%9A%84%E7%B4%A7%E6%80%A5%E9%80%9A%E7%9F%A5.pdf</ref>

*31 December - The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.”<ref>http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2019123108989</ref> This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.

*31 December - 31 December The CCP begins censoring relevant terms from social media.<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2319714520928884</ref>

*Tao Lina, a public-health expert and CCP official formerly with Shanghai's center for disease control and prevention, tells the ''South China Morning Post'', “I think we are [now] quite capable of killing it in the beginning phase, given China’s disease control system, emergency handling capacity and clinical medicine support.”<ref>https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mystery-illness-hits-chinas-wuhan-city-nearly-30-hospitalised</ref>

:*The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares, “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.”<ref>http://wjw.wuhan.gov.cn/front/web/showDetail/2019123108989</ref> This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.

:*Tao Lina, a public-health expert and CCP official formerly with Shanghai's center for disease control and prevention, tells the ''South China Morning Post'', “I think we are [now] quite capable of killing it in the beginning phase, given China’s disease control system, emergency handling capacity and clinical medicine support.”<ref>https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3044050/mystery-illness-hits-chinas-wuhan-city-nearly-30-hospitalised</ref>

:*[[Taiwan]] reports the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to the World Health Organization.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/20/who-taiwan-coronavirus-warning/</ref>

:*[[Taiwan]] reports the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to the World Health Organization.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/20/who-taiwan-coronavirus-warning/</ref>

::*The [[leftwing]] [[Brookings Institute]] claims "China" reported outbreak to World Health Organization.<ref>//www.brookings.edu/2020/04/02/the-early-days-of-a-global-pandemic-a-timeline-of-covid-19-spread-and-government-interventions/ /</ref>  Brookings touts the Communist Party line that Taiwan is part of the [[People's Republic of China]].  The Beijing regime has successfully politicized the World Health Organization.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-senior-who-official-avoids-taiwan-question-talks-about-china-abruptly-ends-interview?%3Futm_source=twitter</ref><ref>https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2020/03/19/world-health-organization-acts-like-propagandist-for-chinese-regime/</ref>

:::*The [[leftwing]] [[Brookings Institute]] claims "China" reported outbreak to World Health Organization.<ref>//www.brookings.edu/2020/04/02/the-early-days-of-a-global-pandemic-a-timeline-of-covid-19-spread-and-government-interventions/ /</ref>  Brookings touts the Communist Party line that Taiwan is part of the [[People's Republic of China]].  The Beijing regime has successfully politicized the World Health Organization.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-senior-who-official-avoids-taiwan-question-talks-about-china-abruptly-ends-interview?%3Futm_source=twitter</ref><ref>https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2020/03/19/world-health-organization-acts-like-propagandist-for-chinese-regime/</ref>

==2020==

==2020==