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Gong Linhua, a seller of Lunar New Year decorations, speaks about the impact of the coronavirus on her business ahead of the Year of the Ox Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. A recent resurgence in coronavirus cases in China has prompted authorities to curb Lunar New Year activities, impacting a wide swath of industries from airlines, trains, hotels and restaurants to small shops selling decorations for the Year of the Ox. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

AP PHOTOS: Virus uncertainty for China’s Year of Ox vendors

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA and NG HAN GUAN - Associated Press

People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk along a pedestrian crossing Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in Tokyo. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 390 new coronavirus cases on Monday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The Latest: Wash. state warns hospitals on VIP vaccinations

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A passenger, wearing protective face gear amid the new coronavirus pandemic, arrives at a long-distance bus terminal, in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Hundreds of people are traveling to their provinces of origin before a strict two-week quarantine begins Sunday in various regions of the country as a measure to curve the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

The Latest: Lockdown in Perth, Australia reaches 5 days

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Peter Ben Embarek of the World Health Organization team passes by a Chinese police officer as he leaves in a convoy from the Baishazhou wholesale market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA and ZEN SOO - Associated Press

A car that's part of a convoy carrying the World Health Organization team of researchers arrives at the Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine also known as the Hubei Province Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. The World Health Organization team of researchers emerged from their hotel Thursday for the first time since their arrival in the central Chinese city of Wuhan to start searching for clues into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that had early COVID-19 patients

By Emily Wang Fujiyama - Associated Press

Members of the World Health Organization team chat on a hotel room balcony in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. The World Health Organization team of researchers emerged from their hotel Thursday for the first time since their arrival in the central Chinese city of Wuhan to start searching for clues into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO team visits Wuhan hospital that had early virus patients

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA - Associated Press

Workers wave to the team of experts from the World Health Organization who ended their quarantine and prepare to leave the quarantine hotel by bus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

EXPLAINER: How experts will hunt for COVID origins in China

By SAM McNEIL - Associated Press

In this Feb. 23, 2017, photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix via AP) **FILE**

Wuhan lab theory in coronavirus outbreak bolstered by declassified U.S. intelligence

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this March 19, 2020, file photo, a biosafety protective suit for handling viral diseases are hung up in a biosafety level 4 training facility at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., where scientists are working to help develop solutions to prevent, detect and treat the coronavirus. China is trying to spread doubt about the effectiveness of Western vaccines and the origin of the coronavirus as a World Health Organization-selected team of scientists are in the city where the pandemic first broke out. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

China pushes fringe theories on pandemic origins, virus

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Wuhan resident Zhu Tao talks about his stockpile of supplies at home in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Zhu, a government critic, took precautions against the virus early and felt vindicated when the outbreak exploded and the city went into lockdown. But now that the situation is back to something close to normal in Wuhan, Zhu finds himself at odds with his neighbors and the government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Year after lockdown, Wuhan dissident more isolated than ever

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, the Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, where a number of people related to the market fell ill with a virus, sits closed in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. The Chinese city of Wuhan is looking back on a year since it was placed under a 76-day lockdown beginning Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)

Timeline: China’s COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown of Wuhan

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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, a man wearing a mask is silhouetted as the sun sets along the riverbank in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Nearly a year to the day after Wuhan went into lockdown to contain a virus that had already escaped, President Joe Biden began putting into effect a new war plan for fighting the outbreak in the United States, Germany topped 50,000 deaths, and Britain closed in on 100,000. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A year after Wuhan lockdown, a world still deep in crisis

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

Residents practice Taiji at a park in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. A year after it was locked down to contain the spread of coronavirus, the central Chinese city of Wuhan has largely returned to normal, even as China continues to battle outbreaks elsewhere in the country. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Wuhan returns to normal as world still battling pandemic

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA - Associated Press

A lone movie goer attends the first screening of the film &quot;Days and Nights in Wuhan&quot; in a cineplex in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. China is rolling out the state-backed film praising Wuhan ahead of the anniversary of the 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

2 films offer 2 tales ahead of Wuhan lockdown anniversary

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA and HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press

A medical worker gives a coronavirus vaccine shot to a patient at a vaccination facility in Beijing, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. A city in northern China is building a 3,000-unit quarantine facility to deal with an anticipated overflow of patients as COVID-19 cases rise ahead of the Lunar New Year travel rush. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China builds hospital in 5 days after surge in virus cases

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

A medical worker in protector overall escorts a patient in wheelchair from the fever screening department of the Tongji Hospital which was at the frontline of the China's fight against the coronavirus in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. The WHO team of international researchers that arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday hopes to find clues to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China builds new quarantine center as virus cases rise

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, cemetery workers carry the remains of 89-year-old Abilio Ribeiro, who died of the coronavirus, to bury at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

‘This is not a game’: Global virus death toll hits 2 million

By CHRIS SHERMAN, MARIA CHENG and JOHN LEICESTER and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Passengers wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus line up at a boarding gate at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. China is seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases in its frozen northeast as a World Health Organization team was due to arrive to probe the origins of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO team arrives in Wuhan to investigate pandemic origins

By SAM McNEIL and HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask and a disposable gloves to help curb the spread of the coronavirus heads to work with other masked people during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 11, 2012. Chinese health authorities say scores more people have tested positive for coronavirus in Hebei province bordering on the capital Beijing. The outbreak focused on the Hebei cities of Shijiazhuang and Xingtai is one of China's most serious in recent months and comes amid measures to curb the further spread during next month's Lunar New Year holiday. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China expands lockdowns, local political conference delayed

Associated Press

Huanan market vendor Jiang Dafa tends to his pigeons at home in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Oct. 22, 2020. China's search for the COVID-19 virus started in the Huanan Seafood market in Wuhan, a sprawling, low-slung complex where many of the first human coronavirus cases were detected. Scientists initially suspected the virus came from wild animals sold in the market. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

By Dake Kang, Maria Cheng and Sam McNeil - Associated Press