Virologist who was first to share COVID genome is shut out of lab in China

The first person to publicly release the genome sequence of the virus that causes COVID-19 — virologist Zhang Yongzhen — appears to have resolved a public dispute with the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center (SPHCC), Fudan University, that erupted last week. Zhang had been photographed camping outside his laboratory since Sunday, after the SPHCC closed … Read more