On January 1, 2020, the Wuhan Public Security Bureau issued a notice stating that 8 people who had spread rumors were being investigated and punished according to law. The notice was broadcast on CCTV, and Li Wenliang's epidemic warning was among them.
In 2020, Chinese and Indian troops clashed fatally in the Galwan Valley, and the line of actual control has remained tense ever since.
On January 1, 2020, China's central health authority issued a gag order to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, ordering it to destroy all collected coronavirus samples; a few days later, the People's Liberation Army of China took over the laboratory. The institute subsequently published an open letter in response to questions about genetic engineering, a lab leak, and military involvement, but provided no detailed evidence.