Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we still do not know the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus!

A Chinese scientist is protesting in China! That by itself is news!

"The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility — a sign of the Beijing’s continuing pressure on scientists conducting research on the coronavirus.

Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post Monday that he and his team had been suddenly notified they were being evicted from their lab, the latest in a series of setbacks, demotions and ousters since the virologist published the sequence in January 2020 without state approval. ...
An Associated Press investigation found that the government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace it from the first weeks of the outbreak. That pattern continues to this day, with labs closed, collaborations shattered, foreign scientists forced out and Chinese researchers barred from leaving the country. ..."

Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab | AP News

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