A Chinese journalist jailed for four years after documenting the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak from the pandemic's epicentre has been sentenced to four more years in prison, Reporters Without Borders says.

Zhang Zhan, 42, was sentenced on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" in China - the same charge that led to her December 2020 imprisonment after she posted first-hand accounts from the central city of Wuhan on the early spread of coronavirus, the international press freedom group, known by its French initials RSF, said on Saturday.

China's Foreign Ministry could not immediately be reached on Sunday for comment.

Reuters could not determine whether the citizen-journalist had legal representation.

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