A Chinese citizen journalist who reported on the outbreak of coronavirus in Wuhan has been jailed for four years. A Chinese court handed the term to Zhang Zhan, 37, on grounds of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", her lawyer said. Zhan, the first person known to have been tried on those charges, was among a handful of people in Wuhan whose first-hand accounts of the coronavirus pandemic have landed them in trouble. China has been accused of covering up the initial outbreak and delaying the release of crucial information, allowing the virus to spread. China's ruling Communist Party tightly controls the media and seeks to block dissemination of information it has not approved for release. In the early days of the outbreak, authorities reprimanded several Wuhan doctors for "rumour-mongering" after they alerted friends on social media.